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Summary: a new era of communications and connectivity
Review: The future always brings more data and the necessity to move that data farther, faster, and less expensively. However, the biggest obstacle to developing data intensive wireless applications is the need for speed. The expansion of wireless high-speed data networks and services will open an entirely new era of communications and connectivity. This book provides network designers, application developers, and product designers with a solid foundation in wireless high-speed technology and applications. The biggest challenge of managing or starting a career in information technology and telecommunications is to keep pace with emerging technologies and applications. This book examines every aspect of wireless high-speed data networks. The comprehensive discussion of data network platforms, next generation high-speed wireless technology, and data satellite provides the reader with an unprecedented opportunity to improve their knowledge and advance their skills. I highly recommend this book to students, professionals, enterprise knowledge centers, and university libraries.
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Summary: The Technological Future of the Corporation
Review: The technological future of the corporation depends on fast access to data anywhere, anytime on such devices as notebook computers, PDAs and mobile phones. Vacca's book, Wireless Data Demystified, is written to instruct mobile internet professionals on how to quickly install wireless data network technology. The text first covers the fundamentals and protocols of wireless data networks, then how to plan, design and install them not only in the business setting but at home. This text is a great reference guide for any technology professional wanting to get up to speed on wireless data networks.
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Summary: THE BOOK for wireless networking professionals!
Review: This book has proven to be invaluable to me at work where I need to stay on top of the latest information on wireless data networking as a means of increasing the productivity our employees as well as the company's ROI. John's "Wireless Data Demystified" book has given me the tools I need to quantify and qualify the wireless data network marketplace and stay one step ahead of the sales [people] that hound me with their worthless promises of easy deployment and integration, all the while digging their hands deeper into my department's budget.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is an excellent resource to bring engineers up-to-speed on designing wireless networks for the future.
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Summary: A mainstay for my reference library
Review: This is the practical stuff you can't ever learn by going to grad school.
Wonderfully comprehensive and chalk full of highly useful information for today's high tech world. Wireless Data hits every conceivable corner of wireless technology with a well balanced mix of overview, technical depth, and hands on applications. The diagrams and illustrations are very well done. Highly recommended for the spectrum of tech managers, network engineers, and technicians. This book will be a mainstay for my reference library.
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Summary: A mainstay for my reference library
Review: This is the practical stuff you can't ever learn by going to grad school.
Wonderfully comprehensive and chalk full of highly useful information for today's high tech world. Wireless Data hits every conceivable corner of wireless technology with a well balanced mix of overview, technical depth, and hands on applications. The diagrams and illustrations are very well done. Highly recommended for the spectrum of tech managers, network engineers, and technicians. This book will be a mainstay for my reference library.
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Summary: Wireless data: A key, futuristic communications technology
Review: Traditional computer networks require cables to link devices like computers and printers, and physically connect these devices to hubs, switches, or each other. However, cabling is messy and expensive to install, and represents an unrecoverable expense. An alternative is the wireless data network that connects devices without the cables, using radio frequencies to transmit data between devices. Wireless networks are not apparent to users, who can still share files and applications, exchange e-mail, access printers, and share access to the Internet. With industry analysts predicting that wireless data transmission will be a 7.5 billion annual business by 2005, Vacca's voluminous text is a timely aid to those companies seeking to adopt this promising technology. This book is a 'must read' for those experienced mobile Internet pros who need to configure, install, and troubleshoot wireless data network technology, as well as those seeking to design and implement wireless data network applications. Vacca has done his usual comprehensive, excellent job of covering an aspect of technology.
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Summary: All levels, please read
Review: Vacca provides a unique value in his books in allowing the reader to drill down to the technical level required. This one is certainly no exception. His top-level scenarios are enlightening and encourage you to leap onto the technological bandwagon, but I particularly appreciate his caveats - particularly where he indicates what standardisation or legislation is required within the industry, as well as his very specific cautions against over-design within your application. Subsequently, he proceeds into the technical rationale for such limitations, and where it can be bypassed or overcome. As I have spent the majority of my applications career interfacing between management/marketing ideals (necessary for progress) and technical viability within the available staff (typically pessimistic after the first few confrontations with external technical reality), I sincerely appreciate Vacca's substantiated presentations of current viability, emergent solutions, and futures.
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Summary: An Essential Guide to Implementing Wireless Data Networks
Review: Vacca's new book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging wireless data technology. The book is geared toward experienced Internet professionals who need to learn how to install wireless networks quickly. It provides numerous hands-on examples, such as an access network protocol, and useful discussions about issues such as the implementation of homeland security (currently most available protocols and products have huge holes). A large portion of the book is devoted to the design of wireless networks, dealing with issues such as standards, robustness, ease of installation and use, and, of course, security. Detailed schematics demonstrate typical filter and uplink applications. The final chapter offers a series of recommendations to support Vacca's assertion that wireless technology is the key to the future of communications and concludes that future networks will require a new methodology that integrates all layers of network design. The book is organized to move from an overview of this emerging technology through the planning and design, installation and deployment, and configuration phases. It also supplies advanced solutions to wireless design problems and new directions of the technology. Altogether a must for those people who are charged with implementing this type of network in their organizations.
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Summary: An Essential Guide to Implementing Wireless Data Networks
Review: Vacca's new book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging wireless data technology. The book is geared toward experienced Internet professionals who need to learn how to install wireless networks quickly. It provides numerous hands-on examples, such as an access network protocol, and useful discussions about issues such as the implementation of homeland security (currently most available protocols and products have huge holes). A large portion of the book is devoted to the design of wireless networks, dealing with issues such as standards, robustness, ease of installation and use, and, of course, security. Detailed schematics demonstrate typical filter and uplink applications. The final chapter offers a series of recommendations to support Vacca's assertion that wireless technology is the key to the future of communications and concludes that future networks will require a new methodology that integrates all layers of network design. The book is organized to move from an overview of this emerging technology through the planning and design, installation and deployment, and configuration phases. It also supplies advanced solutions to wireless design problems and new directions of the technology. Altogether a must for those people who are charged with implementing this type of network in their organizations.
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