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Implementing 802.11, 802.16, and 802.20 Wireless Networks: Planning, Troubleshooting, and Operations (Communications Engineering)

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I waited a very long time to receive this book, because i was being lazy and did not want to write a training manual and an overview for my engineers about WiMax, so i looked around and was initially impressed by the title of the book and bought this book and wimax operators manual as a pair from Amazon, that was the worst purchase of December 2005. It was very clear that the author did not really know much about WiMax or the vendors would not let him break their NDAs, even so he could have gone the WiMax 802.16 standards direction instead, i read the book yawning all the way through and concluded that this was possibly ment for those new to WiFi only. I beleive that i could write a much more informative, technical and satifying WiMax book which can take the reader from WiF to WiMax, 3G and detail the planning, radio coverage and capacity planning and provide evaluation for the backbone network as a compklete package. Reading both books i felt cheated out of my money, as i was expecting a brain massage and got irretation instead, i am afraid i will not be recommending these books to anyone, as i felt it did not cover 802.16 or 20 but covered some instances of WiFi.

In this rather slim book, Olexa packs in a lot of information. With a very practical bent. Aimed at someone who will be actually designing and implementing a wireless network in her company or home. Thus there are many small details discussed, that in practice may prove quite useful to a successful installation. Like weatherproofing the equipment in an outdoors environment. Or detecting and minimising noise sources.

The theory is kept to a minimum. No abstruse maths. You should already be reasonably conversant with the main wireless concepts.