802.11 Demystified: Wi-Fi Made Easy

by Ruth LaRocca, Judy Bass, James Larocca

802.11 is an IEEE standard for wireless LANs that has reemerged in a wide range of applications. This book explains why 802.11 is quickly emerging as the wireless LAN technology of choice. It also... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071385282
• ISBN13: 9780071385282
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good context for decsion makers

This book is good for people condsidering WLAN for their business or using WLAN technology in their products. Some tech details, but if you don't know what spread spectrum is, why its important to WLANs and why security is such a problem - topics such as that - then this book is for you. It's not a tech bits/bytes programming manual, but if you want that - you can download the spec from IEEE free. If you want a good view of where the technology fits with other wireless data technologies, why its so popular and what areas are problems, this book gets you going.

Taking the mystery out of wireless.

The newest technology for networking is wireless and the protocol that covers this is 802.11. In just over 280 pages I found a wealth of information that not only simplifies the concepts but also helped me understand how this new technology will enhance networking as we know it. What the authors do in this book, which I haven't seen in any others is breakdown the protocol first, explaining how the different levels of 802.11, BlueTooth and 3G work. This includes 802.11, 11A, 11B and 11G, each having a specific purpose and function. I found that not only is there different types of protocols but also hardware and carriers for wireless LANs as well, the book does a good job of distinguishing each from the other. The authors also cover the process of implementation and planning which makes this a fairly well rounded manual. One thing I like most about the book was the coverage of the applications you can use and what groups are already using the technology. While this book isn't written to any certification per say, this book will be a handy reference for the CWNA exam and beyond

Coming up for air

As a software engineer, I have worked in the telecom software industry for the last severals years and have been playing catch-up to the standards for every one of those years because of the number of standards and relationships between them. This book has finally put one of the most significant of these standards 802.11 in perspective within the family of telecom standards. Superb research, analysis and context make this book a great read and asset to telecom application software development.

Complicated Topic Simplified

The title is accurate. I liked this book because the author has taken a complicated and very technical topic and broken it down to the laymen's level, such as myself. I highly recommend this book.

Good overview of the standards

Great reference for keeping up with the dizzying amounts of data on standards out there. Jim does a nice job of grounding the subject for understaning purposes. Good place to "start" if this subject matter is unfamiliar to the reader.Pete