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Wireless Data Demystified

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If you work in or need wireless capabilites - this is the book for you!! All you need in one book !!!
This book is truly "chock full" of detailed information, charts. graphs and examples of how to use and install wireless data technology in todays ever changing enviroments.
With these everchanging uses of wireless data transmisions we need an authority to look up to and John Vacca is just that person. He knows his subject and presents a concise yet detailed reference with this book. Vacca is truly a master of wireless education and information. 5 stars !

Vacca's new book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging wireless data technology. The book is geared toward experienced Internet professionals who need to learn how to install wireless networks quickly. It provides numerous hands-on examples, such as an access network protocol, and useful discussions about issues such as the implementation of homeland security (currently most available protocols and products have huge holes). A large portion of the book is devoted to the design of wireless networks, dealing with issues such as standards, robustness, ease of installation and use, and, of course, security. Detailed schematics demonstrate typical filter and uplink applications. The final chapter offers a series of recommendations to support Vacca's assertion that wireless technology is the key to the future of communications and concludes that future networks will require a new methodology that integrates all layers of network design. The book is organized to move from an overview of this emerging technology through the planning and design, installation and deployment, and configuration phases. It also supplies advanced solutions to wireless design problems and new directions of the technology. Altogether a must for those people who are charged with implementing this type of network in their organizations.

This is the practical stuff you can't ever learn by going to grad school.
Wonderfully comprehensive and chalk full of highly useful information for today's high tech world. Wireless Data hits every conceivable corner of wireless technology with a well balanced mix of overview, technical depth, and hands on applications. The diagrams and illustrations are very well done. Highly recommended for the spectrum of tech managers, network engineers, and technicians. This book will be a mainstay for my reference library.

Vacca provides a unique value in his books in allowing the reader to drill down to the technical level required. This one is certainly no exception. His top-level scenarios are enlightening and encourage you to leap onto the technological bandwagon, but I particularly appreciate his caveats - particularly where he indicates what standardisation or legislation is required within the industry, as well as his very specific cautions against over-design within your application. Subsequently, he proceeds into the technical rationale for such limitations, and where it can be bypassed or overcome.

As I have spent the majority of my applications career interfacing between management/marketing ideals (necessary for progress) and technical viability within the available staff (typically pessimistic after the first few confrontations with external technical reality), I sincerely appreciate Vacca's substantiated presentations of current viability, emergent solutions, and futures.

Wireless Data Demystified is a great resource to update design engineers in the current advancements in wireless technology.

Working in the wireless industry, this book is a source of infinite knowledge for my professional career. I liked the illustrations and graphs in the book as well as the detailed explanations. Seeing the information in both forms helped me to grasp the concepts better.
I would recommend this book to anyone who may be interested in using any form of wireless data. Obviously, this is the wave of the future so it would be best to be prepared now.

As we have come to expect, John Vacca has produced a thorough coverage of the wireless technology spectrum. He has proven himself as a tireless and prolific provider of leading edge technical information. His keen insight leads the reader through a well organized journey all the way from basics through implementation and on into the future. As a manager of advanced software development I can confidently say that this book will stimulate many new ideas for the creation of wireless applications that can be applied in business, educational, medical and military sectors.

Finally, a one stop shop for all I need to know about wireless data. It's about time! I started reading this book today and, despite numerous cell phone call interruptions as I lay sick in bed reading, I couldn't put it down. It's a great great book, lots of really great diagrams, schematics, and definitions that truly whisks away the veil of confusion that shrouds the wireless industry; I'm so sick of buying books online and getting them only to find them chockablock full of images and schematics that look like they were printed from screen shots.... "Wireless" is a real page turner (yes, I am as geeky as they get). Vacca makes everything so...legible---there is so much "jargon" in the industry that sometimes it seems like a new brand of alpha-numeric soup from Campbell's. This book does a great job of speaking to all the jargon but without assuming that you know everything. It's highly technical, but all the same it remains a comfortable read for an industry outsider.

This book has proven to be invaluable to me at work where I need to stay on top of the latest information on wireless data networking as a means of increasing the productivity our employees as well as the company's ROI. John's "Wireless Data Demystified" book has given me the tools I need to quantify and qualify the wireless data network marketplace and stay one step ahead of the sales [people] that hound me with their worthless promises of easy deployment and integration, all the while digging their hands deeper into my department's budget.

JohnVacca has again written a book about a subject that has great application in the near future. As notebook computers are fast replacing desktop computers and as flat screen monitors are replacing CRT monitors, wireless data is replacing data transmission via cables of different types. Several companies have already replaced their local networks with wireless networks at work place where their employees can move about the work place and be connected to not only the company's Intranet but also the Internet. This book provides a good explanation in the understanding of wireless data transmission and the challenges for companies that provide wireless transmission to improve this technology as more companies and organizations will soon depend on this application to conduct business.