Bluetooth Demystified - Softcover

J. Muller, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071363238 ISBN 13: 9780071363235

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2000

Synopsis

Bluetooth is a wireless networking standard that allows seamless communication of voice, email and such like. This guide to Bluetooth helps to figure out if it's right for your products and services. It details the strengths and weaknesses of Bluetooth and has coverage of applications and products.

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Review:

Wireless communication slowly is becoming reality. In a wireless world, a printer is installed automatically after it is turned on; keyboard and mouse cables no longer become hopelessly tangled; Palm Pilots and mobile telephones automatically synchronize and communicate. Providing this sort of seamless, wireless communication--at a low cost--is the goal of Bluetooth technology.

Devices that support Bluetooth automatically communicate with one another when they come within a 30-foot range of each other. If devices are compatible and properly authenticated, they start communicating, up to a maximum bandwidth of 1 Mbps. Although Bluetooth has a relatively short range and limited bandwidth, it requires very little power and is theoretically inexpensive. This makes it the ideal technology for portable devices that run on batteries, as well as devices that don't require massive bandwidth.

Bluetooth Demystified is a solid overview of Bluetooth technology for data-communication professionals who want to learn more about this new wireless specification. In many ways, it mirrors the official and more technical Bluetooth 1.0 specification (available online). For those who are familiar with the official specification, many of the diagrams will be familiar, and much of the basic information is the same. This book does not provide explicit information for programmers who are looking to implement Bluetooth support; but, if you want an accessible introduction to Bluetooth technology, this does the job.

Structured to provide an increasingly technical overview of Bluetooth, the book begins with a general overview of wireless technology and provides the motivation for Bluetooth. This creates a solid foundation for the following chapters, which give technical descriptions of the various Bluetooth communication protocols. Chapters on security and proposed usage models flesh out this new wireless communication specification.

New technology platforms always require a critical mass before they become a broadly accepted standard, and Bluetooth is no exception. Success for this technology is not guaranteed, even though an impressive list of companies have promised to implement Bluetooth in their products. Whether Bluetooth is the next Microsoft Bob or the next Palm Pilot remains to be seen. --Pete Ostenson

From the Publisher:

As the publisher of Bluetooth Demystified, the comments made by the Amazon customer from San Diego disturbs us. He/she is correct in that some typos do appear in the book. All technical books contain typos in their first printings -- given their complexity, it's unavoidable. These are quickly identified by observant readers like our reviewer below and are corrected in future printings. The blueooth standard is a rapidly emerging area and we have made every attempt to release Bluetooth Demystified in a timely manner -- but we have not cut any corners in reviewing and editing to do so. Like all our of titles, this book underwent rigorous editorial review. The errors the customer from San Diego refers to will be corrected in subsequent printings. Meanwhile, we welcome further Amazon customer comments on the content and utility of our book.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0071363238
• ISBN 13: 9780071363235
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396