WiMAX Crash Course

by Steven Shepard

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The how and why of WiMAX--the"last mile" technology that'srevolutionizing wireless broadband

WiMAX Crash Course offers an accessibleoverview of the revolutionary solution forwireless delivery of broadband services...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072263075
• ISBN13: 9780072263077
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Introductory Technology,

In the forward of this book the author starts out saying that this book is intended to complement the technology-focused WiMAX books that are already out there. This book, instead focuses on markets, applications, revenue impacts, and integration. To be sure, it gives a little bit of background technology, where antennas have to be located, things like that. And there is an awful lot of information about equipment manufacturers, trade associations, and acronyms (this is a new industry, a whole new list of acronyms). This is basically where you can go for more information if you wish. WiMAX offers the potential to completely change a bunch of the communications characteristics in the world. In the developing world there is a need for digital communications. A doctor in a remote hospital in Africa facing something he hasn't seen before and needing information from the web. There's a picture of a telephone central office in remote South Africa that is built into a shipping container. WiMAX offers communications without having to string a lot of wire. There is some 'looking into the future' in this book. I'd have liked to see more.

The best of the three WiMAX books available in May of 2006

This review was written in May of 2006. Of the three books available on WiMAX (the WiMAX handbook, the WiMAX operator's guide, and this one), this book is the most useful. The only negative to this book is that it devotes a full 90 pages to listing and describing the members of the WiMAX forum, which is either overkill, or book filler, or both. This glaring flaw is more than made up for, however, by the book's great illustrations, well written prose, and interesting anecdotes about the history and development of 802.16. Because of the overall tone and the amount of information contained in the non-Forum-members chapter, this book definitely earns five stars. If you can only pick one of the three WiMAX books available now, the Crash Course is the one you want.