Quality of Service (QoS) is continuously growing in importance in the telecommunications industry because competition is growing fiercer by the day. By drawing on 30 years of experience, William C. Hardy explains how to examine specific tools and techniques that he has developed for the measurement and evaluation of QoS and understand the underlying analysis perspectives and methodologies.

Details the basic concepts of QoS, together with the methodologies for organizing, structuring, and carrying out analyses of QoS from scratch.
Describes the atttributes of the...

When astrophysicist Henry James discovers by accident an impending cataclysm that threatens all life on Earth and tries to inform his former mentor, he finds out that the threat is not only known, but already being worked covertly by an elite team whose seemingly impossible mission is to convert the moon into a space ship, populate it, and fly it out of harm's way. The result is Henry's recruitment into an effort that will take him and his dog, Christopher, on a roller coaster ride through political maneuvering and assassination attempts, during which he uncovers some of the darkest secrets...