A comprehensive book surveying the entire communication area. New topics added to this book now include wideband digital receivers, charge couple devices, digital video, set-top boxes, direct satellite broadcasts, MPEG-2 compression and encoding, modems (latest ones), Internet WWW, Spread-spectrum Systems, Firewire, Universal Serial Bus, IRDA and Automation Buses. This book has the most coverage on digital-4 chapters (10-13), and troubleshooting techniques are presented.