Author: Steven Shepard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: networking, professional, mcgraw, identification, radio, frequency, rfid
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-08-16
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0071442995
ISBN-13: 9780071442992

TAG THE HOTTEST GROWTH IN WIRELESS With a predicted $10-billion market over the next decade, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a booming new wireless technology with an eager new audience—retailers. From global giant Wal-Mart down, RFID is being adapted to track inventories via microchip-tagged products. Popular technology writer Steven Shepard’s RFID gives you an inside look at the entire arena, from the technology’s staggering capabilities and potential, through insightful coverage of issues from vendors, implementation, and monitoring, to possible technical conflicts, ma

Author: Steven Shepard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Keywords: course, crash, wimax
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2006-05-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0072263075
ISBN-13: 9780072263077

The how and why of WiMAX—the “last mile” technology that’s revolutionizing wireless broadband WiMAX Crash Course offers an accessible overview of the revolutionary solution for wireless delivery of broadband services. Using real-world examples, the book explains how WiMAX works and discusses the business and economic implications of this groundbreaking technology. WiMAX is emerging rapidly, and this book will get you up to speed quickly. The book gives you the ability to ask the right questions of their providers before making infrastructure and ser

Author: Steven Shepard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: second, course, crash, telecom
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2005-05-27
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0071451439
ISBN-13: 9780071451437

This unique book serves as a readable, holistic introduction to telecommunications. Far more than an acronym-studded quick fix, Telecom Crash Course is a true tutorial that offers context, connections--and humor-- to teach the importance of key technologies. Author Steven Shepard, an accomplished writer and teachers, uses lively stories that deliver important points about the markets that drive the technologies. He provides not only rigorous technical accuracy, with explanations of each technology’s economic importance, but a market and customer-focused analysis of the use and business s

Author: Steven Shepard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Keywords: course, crash, ims
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-02-27
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0072263067
ISBN-13: 9780072263060

An Introduction to This Innovative and Revolutionary Next-Generation Communication Solution The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a powerful, emerging technology that will change the way we live, work, and communicate. Through convergence of fixed and wireless networks, IMS delivers seamless roaming to multimedia devices regardless of location or access modality. This much-needed resource gives you an easy-to-understand overview of the development, evolving standards, and excitingly imminent future of IMS. Expand Your Understanding of IMS Written by a renowned professional author

Author: Steven Shepard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: course, crash, over, voice
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-06-29
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0072262419
ISBN-13: 9780072262414

Recent advances in VoIP (Voice over IP) technology have made it the solution of choice for voice service because of its low cost and increased reliability. Voice Over IP Crash Course offers practical technology coverage, while discussing the business, strategic and competitive implications of VoIP deployment in corporations. The book also covers the challenges faced by service providers as they evolve to an IP infrastructure while continuing to operate the PSTN.

Author: Steven Shepard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Keywords: course, crash, networking, optical
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2001-02-20
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0071372083
ISBN-13: 9780071372084

Get the latest information on optical networking technologies, companies and trends. Penetrate the facts behind the speculation on optical networking’s promise as a potential solution to skyrocketing Internet traffic. With Steve Shepard’s Optical Networking Crash Course, you’ll discover what’s what, who’s who, and how it all works together in the speed-of-light world of optical networking. From technologies, equipment, companies and competitors to nitty-gritty issues such as security, signal sinks, backhoe fade, add-drop mix and much, much more, this state-of-th

Author: Steven Shepard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: networking, professional, mcgraw, metro, area
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2003-10-23
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0071399143
ISBN-13: 9780071399142

Broadband in the Metro Area has proven to be telecom’s one bright spot in 2001 – all the long haul backbone capacity in the world does you no good if you can’t move your data through the Metro bottleneck. But service providers are wrestling with all manner of technology choices (SONET? DWDM? Ethernet? The coming 10Gig Ethernet?), and also face the challenge of easily and effectively accessing SANs and VPNs. Quality of service issues are crucial in recruiting and maintaining customers Steven Shepard lays bare the tricks and traps awaiting service providers in the metro area spa