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Wi-Fi(TM), Bluetooth(TM), Zigbee(TM) and WiMax(TM)

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I bought this book because it promised broad coverage of the currently most important non cellular, wireless technologies. We'll it delivers on the breadth of information but this is an extremely difficult book to read. Here's why:

1. It's coverage of the wireless subjects seems spotty and disorganized in that it jumps around between hardware and software subjects in an almost aimless way. Generally, the book does not provide sufficient and clear coverage of the system level or architectural issues for a given technology before deep diving into selected areas of technical detail. There tends to be too much detail in many specific technical areas without sufficient discussion of how the pieces work together.

2. It's written in broken English (actually seems to be poorly translated from French);

3. It is very poorly edited (includes many incorrect references to figures and tables, incomplete and broken sentences);

4. It suffers from death by acronyms. The book introduces the words behind the acronym once then never seems to use the "words" again, only the acronym. Unless you're already an expert in the subject, reading requires you to access the 16 page acronym dictionary after reading every few sentences. This is doable but makes reading difficult and clearly distracts the reader from appreciating the technical concepts being communicated.

Although the book seems to have a good deal of useful information. I would recommend that potential buyers look around for other coverage of the material before buying this hard to read book.