Book description
Comprehensive Answers to the "Why" of Wireless Mobility
In this unique guide, Cisco wireless expert Neil Reid incorporates best practices from some of the most complex and challenging wireless deployments in the industry and provides an insider's view of the "why" of wireless mobility. The book discusses the critical need for today's wireless networks and how these systems are integral to education, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries. Wireless Mobility looks beyond the technology and costs of wireless implementations, focusing on the long-term strategic advantages enabled by wireless mobile networks.
Coverage includes:
- How wireless networks are used to derive maximum value from business operations
- Insights on the value of mobility from a CIO's perspective
- The essential role of wireless mobility in enabling virtualization
- Value propositions of wireless mobility in education and healthcare
- How wireless network assessments and IT mobility investments resolve critical business operational issues
- Using Optimal Project Sequencing to maximize value and reduce network deployments and maintenance costs
- Implementing finance strategies that maximize cash flow
- System integrator growth and mobility practice resilience
- Best practices for today's wireless deployments that enable next-generation mobility deployments
- Wireless mobility and intelligent buildings
- Ten key future trends in the wireless mobility industry
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Wireless Mobility
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Why Wireless?
- 2 The Business of Untethering
- 3 Mobility and the CIO
- 4 Virtualization and Mobility
- 5 Value Propositions and Success Metrics in Education and Healthcare
- 6 Wireless Network Assessments
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7 Optimal Project Sequencing
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Key WLAN Projects: The Foundation of OPS
- Nuclear Power Plant Design: Meet Customer Requirements
- Aircraft Manufacturing Project: Gain Access to Complex Facility Equipment
- Retailer: Gather Input from Facilities Managers
- Nuclear Submarine Fabrication Facility: Use the Locals
- Shipyard Coverage: Account for Ground Zero Effect
- Classified Aircraft Fabrication Facility: Consider Legacy Systems
- Muni Projects: Find the Money
- Optimal Project Sequencing: Three Prevailing Concepts
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OPS: The Sequence of Success
- Ratification of Functional Requirements by All Stakeholders
- Project Phasing Ratified by All Stakeholders
- RF Coverage Model Presented to Stakeholders
- Pre-deployment Audit to Verify RF Coverage Plan
- Deployment
- RF Test and Post-deployment Audit
- Final RF Node Adjustments
- Automated Maintenance and Management
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Key WLAN Projects: The Foundation of OPS
- 8 Finance Strategies for Wireless Mobility
- 9 System Integrator—Mobility Practice Resilience
- 10 Next-Generation Mobility
- 11 Mobility and Intelligent Buildings
- 12 Summary and Future Trends
- A Mobility Glossary
- B Relevant Mobility Standards
- C Key Mobility Groups and Information
- Index
Product information
- Title: Wireless Mobility: The Why of Wireless
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2010
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071628631
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