- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (12 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130317160
- ISBN-13: 978-0130317162
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #1 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Networking & Security > Wireless > WAP
- #83 in Books > Business, Finance & Law > Law > Scots Law > Commercial, Financial, Industrial & Taxation > Communication
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Alongside any big leap forward in technology, comes a bewildering new selection of abbreviations and acronyms. So it is with the spread of Web applications to mobile devices, with the advent of WAP, SMS and i-Mode. All of a sudden, we see telecommunications professionals grappling with the problems of Web servers and mark-up languages, and computer programmers are found puzzling over the meaning of GPRS, UMTS, CDPD and all the other wireless communications terms being bandied about.
Andy Dornan's The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applicationsis aimed at that latter group, and is an excellent guide to the major wireless communications technologies in use today, and those that will appear over the next few years. He writes in clear, non-technical language and reading this book will dispel the clouds of confusion over the many three- (and four-) letter abbreviations that litter wireless communications.
Senior editor specialising in wireless technology at Networkmagazine, Andy Dornan is well placed to explain how wireless data communications have developed from the early analogue networks, through to today's 2G and 21/2G digital systems, and onto the high-capacity 3G networks of tomorrow. Along the way, he ensures the reader understands how radio is used to transfer voice and data, takes a look at the Mobile Data Services technologies such as WAP, c-HTML(i-Mode), SMS and walks us through the infrastructure of a voice and GPRS network. The book also covers the short range wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and IrDA.
This is an excellent book for the mobile computing professional who needs a clear understanding of the wireless communications technologies that make it all work. --Andy Wigley
Product Description
For introductory and continuing ed courses in wireless communication.
This text is designed to look beyond the hype, examining just what is and isn't possible with present-day and future wireless systems. It is primarily focused on the applications, but to understand these properly requires a look at the underlying technology.
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Best of the lot,
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This review is from: The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications: From Cellular Systems to WAP and M-commerce (Essential Guides (Prentice Hall)) (Paperback)
The best of the wireless books: aimed at the beginner, but with some technical information, always placed in a business and/or social context.
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Very Good,
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This review is from: The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications: From Cellular Systems to WAP and M-commerce (Essential Guides (Prentice Hall)) (Paperback)
Very clear descriptions of the new (and older) wireless tech. Very good on the more general applications, and on specifics of how it all works. Very good diagrams and illustrations too.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An important reference work,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications: From Cellular Systems to WAP and M-commerce (Essential Guides (Prentice Hall)) (Paperback)
If you are a business person dealing with wireless/mobile technology people this is an important reference work. It won't give you the business rationale behind the technologies but it should allow you to have a basic conversation with a techie. Referencing is limited but then the book seems to be designed to be "dipped in to". Also, beware that there are quite a few typos and, on occasion, weak/confusing explanations that readers with no prior appropriate technical experience may not spot. Still, errors aside, if you need to get up to speed fast or work with techies on a fairly limited basis, a very good read and the best I've seen to date.
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