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Essential Guide to RF and Wireless, The
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Essential Guide to RF and Wireless, The

by Carl J. Weisman
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
5h 23m
English
Pearson

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The only easy-to-understand guide to the wireless revolution!

There's a wireless revolution underway -- and with The Essential Guide to RF and Wireless, you can learn all you need to know about it, even if you don't have a technical background! Industry veteran Carl J. Weisman presents wireless and RF technology at every level: fundamental concepts, basic terminology, components, system building blocks, complete systems, and more. You'll find up-to-the-minute coverage of all of today's hottest wireless and RF technologies -- and tomorrow's!

  • Spread spectrum and CDMA: how they work, where they're used

  • Wireless local loop (WLL): wireless solutions for the "last mile"

  • ISM-based wireless LANs

  • Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS): a new alternative for broadband wireless service

  • And more!

  • The Essential Guide to RF and Wireless is friendly and accessible -- with dozens of charts, diagrams, and photographs that make advanced wireless and RF technology easier to understand than ever before. Whether you're a sales or marketing pro, customer, investor, tech writer, PR specialist, or student, it's the complete, up-to-the-minute briefing you've been searching for!

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