Going Mobile
Keri Hayes & Susan Kuchinskas
Wonderful piece describing and explaining successful deployments of wireless technologies
Introduction to DWDM Technology
Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos
A primer on dense wave division multiplexing -- a must read if when we were in 1998 but not so important now!
Newton's Telecom Dictionary
Harry Newton
The standard bearer dictionary for the industry
Residential Broadband
Kim Maxwell
Great DSL primer and still relevant today
Telecosm
George Gilder
Written to near the peak
The Death of Distance
Frances Cairncross
Superb piece that forecasted how life would change with the changes in telecom… superb
The Switching Book
Xylan - multi author
Basic primer on routing and switching.