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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070006008 ISBN 13: 9780070006003

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1996

Cellular Digital Packet Data is a new standard for wireless technology capable of carrying enough data to compete against Personal Communication Services (PCS) - the technology which Cable TV companies are using to provide both telephone and television services. "CDPD" offers a frontline report on protocols, network architectures, management issues and applications development and readers will find hands-on deployment advice and case studies from telecoms companies including ITT.

From the Back Cover:

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.