WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks [Paperback]

Daniel Sweeney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2004

If you are a primary decision-maker about the design and implementation of an 802.16-based wireless public network, then this is the book for you! This manual steers you in architecting and operating a network with wireless, "last mile" access. This thorough book discusses all layers of the network, as well as management and administration.

Author Daniel Sweeney explains planning, construction, and day-to-day operations of a standards-based broadband network. He discusses the many advantages of broadband wireless, and summarizes its unique difficulties, challenges, and limitations. After reading WiMax Operator's Manual, you will possess a skill set for successfully planning and managing networks.

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About the Author

Daniel Sweeney has established his credibility as a networking guru beginning with his recognition of two book-length written analyst reports:"Wi-Fi Hotspot Opportunities (2003) for Forward Concepts and Godboxes: Multiservice Switching Platforms in the Metro (2003) for Information Gatekeepers Group. Daniel also wrote Demystifying the Compact Disc, published by TAB Books in 1986.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (June 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159059357X
• ISBN-13: 978-1590593578
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the first books on WiMax, July 19, 2004

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W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks (Paperback)

First up! Daniel Sweeney has come up with one of the first authoritative guides to WiMax. With the huge success of WiFi in many countries, some people have chafed at its short range of 100 meters or so, and its relatively low bandwidth. In response, the IEEE has come up with a standard, 802.16, better known as WiMax. It can offer some 70 Mbps, compared to 2Mbps for WiFi, and at a range of several kilometers. Very nice.

But WiMax introduces new complications, compared to a much simpler WiFi network. No one in the world has yet built an operational WiMax network that is available for public use. Though of course there has been small scale prototyping, which has undoubtedly helped the IEEE define the current WiMax standard.

Sweeney describes here what the features of a WiMax network would be. This book is not restricted to a hard core audience of hardware engineers or software developers. Instead, he has written it as a level accessible to technical managers, who might be considering such a network. There is roughly equal emphasis on both the technical issues of signal propagation and on the business issues of building and running the network.

Still early days yet for WiMax. Which is in fact one of the attractions of this book. Sweeney has given us enough information to seriously contemplate the top level design and economics of a network. Ahead of the curve.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not deliver as advertised, February 23, 2006

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John D. Moody "moodster2" (Hotlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks (Paperback)

The author is self-described as a "Business Reporter" and "Industry Analyst", which is fine and dandy in the context of delivering industry reports, etc. But it does not, in the least, qualify oneself as an expert on building wireless networks. And the author has never done so, which is glaringly apparent within the text.

I have designed, deployed, operated 15 wireless broadband networks, and had hoped that this book, as advertised, would provide insight into how designing and deploying WiMax networks would differ from current technologies (in terms of link budgets, costs, capacity, etc.), but that information is nowhere to be seen in this book. The author purports that the text is practical rather than technical, but it is neither. And then the author ensues on primarily technical treaties on wireless broadband, but unfortunately (in terms of RF engineering, the basis of WiMax), the author is as technically astute as a doorknob.

If you are looking to build a WISP (what this book is really about, not WiMax), there are much better books (Unger), written by people who actually speak from experience, and don't just write for a living.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useful as a Chocolate teapot, March 30, 2006

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K. Crossman (berkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks (Paperback)

let me say to those WiMax and Wireless technical experts out there, i have discovered that lazyness is a great crime when you are a technical expert. So i was being Lazy (confession) and decided to avoid writing an overview on WiMAX and an introduction to WiMax for my engineers, and decided that it would be good to simply buy a book and let them read it with their enthuast little engineering selves, as i did not want to get to the laymans level, could not be bothered, as i wanted to complete some traffic engineering work in WiMax i was working on. Well i could not beleive that a person could get away with selling such rubbish under the title of WiMax Operators Manual and Building 802.16, the whole thing is fraudlent in its entirity. I don't feel that i am in an arena to shout my credentials, lets just say i know a little about, 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, WiFi, WiMAX and UWB and spends my time wondering about our gold fish bowl we call earth. Now in the record industry you can get away with recording rubbish because of who you know etc, i did not beleve that the same was possible in our technical intelligent community, i felt that i was part of an elite community, but it seems that we are being invaded by the dummkofs, with the relavent connections. Message to the dummkof that wrote this book try another career and the publishers, get yourself better technical people who know what they are reading and interperting and consiquently writing. Cause this book to me is an insult to my industry and fraudlent, would like my money back, but i know that is a waste of time. Lesson 1:- Not everything with written with the word Wimax is WiMAX (All that Glitters is not Gold) Can't even recommend it to my 5 year old he might throw it at me.