The only easy-to-understand guide to the wireless revolution! * The easy-to-understand guide to the wireless revolution-fully updated for the latest technologies! * New and expanded coverage: broadband fixed wireless, WLANs, wireless Internet, Bluetooth, smart antennas, and more * Updated coverage of CDMA, GPS, LMDS, and WLL systems * Concepts, terminology, components, and systems-plus new wireless glossary * Perfect for marketers, investors, tech writers, PR specialists, and other non-engineers! There's a wireless revolution underway! With The Essential Guide to RF and Wireless, Second Edition, you can understand it, join it, and help drive it-even if you don't have a technical background. Leading consultant Carl J. Weisman has thoroughly updated this bestseller to reflect new market realities and breakthrough technologies-from wireless 802.11 LANs to broadband fixed wireless, and beyond. Mr. Weisman covers wireless at every level you need to understand: concepts, terminology, building blocks, and above all, how complete wireless systems actually work. Drawing on his extensive experience training sales professionals, he explains the essence of every key wireless/RF technology-clearly, comprehensibly, and with just the right touch of humor. * Spread spectrum and CDMA: how they work and why they're important * New! Detailed section on broadband fixed wireless: the new "last mile" solution for residential subscribers * New! Satellite Internet delivery * New! Smart antenna and superconducting filter technologies and their implications * New! Wireless Internet, m-commerce, and Bluetooth * Expanded! Global Positioning Systems: technologies and applications * Updated! Preview the future of mobile telephony * Updated! Wireless LANs and home networking From its all-new glossary to its extensive collection of charts, diagrams, and photographs, no other wireless/RF book is as accessible or as friendly! Whether you're a sales or marketing pro, customer, investor, tech writer, PR specialist, trade press writer, analyst, planner, or student, here's the up-to-the-minute briefing you've been searching for!