CDPD: Cellular Digital Packet Data Standards and Technology (McGraw-Hill Computer Communications Series) - Hardcover

Agosta, John; Russell, Travis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070006008 ISBN 13: 9780070006003

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1996

Synopsis

CDPD is a standards-based wireless technology capable of carrying enough data to compete against Personal Communications Services. This volume is a report from the frontlines covering protocols and network architectures, toplogies and interfaces, network management issues, and applications development.

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A complete tutorial in CDPD-the powerful new wireless technology Here is a great way to prepare yourself for the coming boom in mobile technologies. This book offers you a solid, nonengineering approach to networking with CDPD-the new standards-based wireless technology capable of carrying enough data to compete against personal communications Services (PCS). You'll get a detailed overview of CDPD elements of procedure, covering protocols and network architectures... topologies and interfaces... network management issues... and application development. With the help of this practical guide, you'll discover: How mobile users access, register, authenticate, and utilize the CDPD network; How packet data and voice services are able to share the same channel space; How CDPD mobile devices learn about the network's topology; How CDPD mobile devices can perform channel and cell transfers without any involvement from the network operator. Filled with graphics, this complete CDPD tutorial features hands-on deployment advice-plus case studies from ITT, Hughes, TYMNET, and Ameritech Cellular. It also includes a helpful glossary, sample data traces, and a listing of CDPD vendors.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070006008
• ISBN 13: 9780070006003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243