Wireless Data Demystified

Wireless subscribers are up, but revenue per subscriber isn’t – and it isn’t going to be unless wireless service providers can provide more than plain-vanilla voice services. The road to successful deployment of data services has been difficult, but it is essential if the industry is going to survive. This book takes you inside the data services that will – one way or another – transform the wireless industry.

John R. Vacca wrote the book on wireless data, literally: His Wireless Broadband Networks Handbook is the field’s standard professional reference. Now, in Wireless Data Demystified, he offers a book anyone can understand—without being a certified technical expert. And if you are a technical expert, you will find here the essentials you need, without wading through hundreds of pages of technical detail.

You must read this book if—

* understanding wireless data technologies and their future is your career

* you want a sightline on interlinked wireless data technologies – and a realistic timeline on what’s really happening now

* wireless e-mail, e-commerce, audio, video, stock quotes, information retrieval, and other subscriber services are part of your plan for the future

* networks, technologies, and the protocols that deliver wireless data services are your responsibility

* making the move from straight wireless voice services to data is your company’s survival strategy – or should be

* basic network design and deployment concepts, clearly explained, could put you ahead of the pack

* implementing fixed wireless or WLL (wireless local loop) is a service possibility

* you’re a network manager, administrator, or technician, or work in wireless sales or marketing

* you can see past the troubled present to future investment potential of wireless data

Transmitting wireless data will be a $7.5 billion-a-year business by 2005, industry analysts predict. This book unpacks wireless data essentials to position you to take advantage of this difficult but fast-growing market.

Contents   

   Part 1: OVERVIEW OF WIRELESS HIGH-SPEED DATA TECHNOLOGY
      Chapter 1: Wireless Data Network Fundamentals
      Chapter 2: Wireless Data Network Protocols
      Chapter 3: Services and Applications over Wireless Data Networks
      Chapter 4: Wireless Data Marketing Environment
      Chapter 5: Standards for Next-Generation High-Speed Wireless Data Connectivity
   Part 2: PLANNING AND DESIGNING WIRELESS HIGH-SPEED DATA APPLICATIONS
      Chapter 6: Planning and Designing Wireless Data and Satellite Applications
      Chapter 7: Architecting Wireless Data Mobility Design
      Chapter 8: Fixed Wireless Data Network Design
      Chapter 9: Wireless Data Access Design
      Chapter 10: Designing Millimeter-Wave Devices
      Chapter 11: Wireless Data Services: The Designing of the Broadband Era
      Chapter 12: U.S.-Specific Wireless Data Design
   Part 3: INSTALLING AND DEPL0YING WIRELESS HIGH-SPEED DATA NETWORKS
      Chapter 13: Deploying Mobile Wireless Data Networks
      Chapter 14: Implementing Terrestrial Fixed Wireless Data Networks
      Chapter 15: Implementing Wireless Data and Mobile Applications
      Chapter 16: Packet-over-SONET/SDH Specification (POS-PHY Level 3): Deploying High-Speed Wireless Data   Networking Applications
      Chapter 17: Wireless Data Access Implementation Methods
   Part 4: CONFIGURING WIRELESS HIGH-SPEED DATA NETWORKS
      Chapter 18: Configuring Wireless Data
      Chapter 19: Configuring Broadband Wireless Data Networks
      Chapter 20: Configuring Wireless Data Mobile Networks
      Chapter 21: Configuring Residential Wireless Data Access
   Part 5: ADVANCED WIRELESS HIGH-SPEED DATA NETWORK SOLUTIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
      Chapter 22: Residential High-Speed Wireless Data Personal Area Networks
      Chapter 23: Summary, Recommendations, and Conclusions
      Glossary
     Index