Wireless Computing: A Manager's Guide to Wireless Networking - Softcover

Brodsky, Ira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0442019122 ISBN 13: 9780442019129

Publisher: VNR, 1997

Synopsis

Providing an inside look at how wireless computing evolved and where it will lead in the future, this book includes a guide to data communications for radio professionals, and to radio technology for computer personnel. Covers emerging mobile data technologies, and how wireless radio and data communications will become an integral part of the desktop, LANs and mobile satellite services.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Wireless Computing A Manager’s Guide to Wireless Networking Ira Brodsky Pagers, cellular phones, and high-flying satellites have radically altered the modern work place and forever changed the way business gets done. But in his forward-looking new book Wireless Computing, industry expert Ira Brodsky convincingly documents the fact that the wireless revolution has actually just begun. Wireless Computing is a comprehensive guide to each of the elements of the new wireless universe. Chapters provide detailed analysis of topics such as:

• The wireless workplace and radio Local Area Networks (LANs)
• Cellular phones, including a complete discussion of the migration from analog to digital cellular technology
• Paging and personal messaging services
• Infrared: "Fiber optics without the fiber"
• Bandwidth, including a full tour of frequency ranges and how each is currently used

Beyond merely summarizing the latest wireless advancements, Brodsky suggests ways companies of various sizes and industries might integrate them into their internal communications networks. As the battle rages over which standards and technologies will win marketplace superiority, Wireless Computing offers provocative insights that corporate IT and communications managers, network administrators, equipment and software vendors, and others responsible for staying ahead of the communications technology curve are sure to find invaluable.

About the Author

Ira Brodsky is President of Datacomm Research Company, a management consulting and market research firm specializing in emerging wireless communications, with clients in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Also the author of Wireless: The Revolution in Personal Telecommunications, Mr. Brodsky has published numerous articles in leading trade journals and is a regular columnist for Network World, Cellular Business, and Wireless For The Corporate User. Mr. Brodsky has also chaired six wireless conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: VNR
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442019122
• ISBN 13: 9780442019129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 397