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Wireless broadband : conflict and convergence / Vern Fotheringham, Chetan Sharma.
By: Fotheringham, Vern [author.]
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Contributor(s): Sharma, Chetan | John Wiley & Sons [publisher.] | IEEE Xplore (Online service) [distributor.].
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BookPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, c2008Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2008]Description: 1 PDF (xxiii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470381601.Subject(s): Wireless communication systems | Broadband communication systems | 3G mobile communication | Airports | Authentication | Batteries | Biographies | Broadband communication | Business | Cable TV | Communication cables | Companies | Computer industry | Convergence | Copper | Driver circuits | Economic indicators | Economics | Education | Ethernet networks | GSM | Gallium arsenide | Games | Hardware | IEEE 802.11 Standards | IP networks | Indexes | Industries | Internet | Licenses | Media | Microprocessors | Mobile communication | Mobile computing | Mobile handsets | Monopoly | Multiaccess communication | Multimedia communication | Next generation networking | Productivity | Program processors | Protocols | Public policy | Regulators | Resource management | Standards | Streaming media | Subscriptions | Telecommunications | Telephone sets | Terminology | WiMAX | Wide area networks | Wireless LAN | Wireless communication | Wireless sensor networksGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 621.384 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
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Summary: Wireless Broadband utilizes a reader-friendly approach to clearly explain the business, regulatory, and technology issues of the future market for wireless services. It covers broadband and the information society; drivers of broadband consumption; global wireless market analysis; broadband IP core networks; convergence; and contention and conflict. Complemented with more than eighty illustrations, this book provides unparalleled insight into the emerging technologies, service delivery options, applications, and digital content that will influence and shape the next phase of the wireless revolution.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 WHERE WE ARE--WIRELESS MEETS THE BROADBAND INTERNET -- 2 BROADBAND AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY -- 3 GLOBAL WIRELESS MARKET ANALYSIS -- 4 THE VIRTUAL DISPLACES THE PHYSICAL -- 5 CONVERGENCE FINALLY ARRIVES -- 6 DRIVERS OF BROADBAND CONSUMPTION -- 7 THE EMERGING INFLUENCE OF THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY -- 8 ALWAYS BEST CONNECTED -- 9 BROADBAND IP CORE NETWORKS -- 10 WIDEBAND 3G TO BROADBAND 4G--COLLISION AND CONVERGENCE OF STANDARDS -- 11 RADIO TECHNOLOGY--MOVING THE GOAL POSTS -- 12 CONTENTION AND CONFLICT--REGULATORY, POLITICAL, FINANCIAL, AND STANDARDS BATTLES -- 13 CONCLUSION -- A WIRELESS BROADBAND GLOSSARY -- B A SCENARIO OF A BROADBAND WIRELESS CUSTOMER,CIRCA 2012 -- C SPECTRUM TABLES--WIRELESS BROADBAND -- About the Authors.
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