Wimax Explained; System Fundamentals

This book is a good explanation of WiMax for a technical person new to the technology that appreciates a clear and crisp description of a broad set of technical WiMax topics, or for a non-technical person needing to understand the WiMax technology to a good level of detail after a quick read. I would not recommend it for someone looking for WiMax specifications in detail for protocol, circuit or product design (I would suggest going to the IEEE specification for that or email me for recommendations). But for anyone becoming involved in WiMax, particularly at a system, networking, deployment, or operations level, this book provides good solid information. The illustrations I found to be good for this level, and the information is timely. I am happy with my purchase and at this price it has met my current needs and expectations.

I needed to get up to speed on WiMax and quick. I bought a few books but this one was clearly the best. It's a straight forward "explaination" of WiMax starting with "What is WiMax" to Service Flows. It starts with technical information that I already understood and clearly added/combined/modified technical details to develop a logical and technical explaination of what WiMax. It's at the right technical level. It stops short of all the protocol details (however many of those are existing and I know them) that bogs down a lot of technical books. There's nothing worse than pay $50 for a book and getting 20 pages of overview and then 150 of standards which I could have gotten for free online. This book definately gave me the right technical information sprinkled with illustrations that were SIMPLE to understand. The figures are clear and relate directly to the explainations. It saved me a lot of time by getting me up to speed quick so I now have a good understanding of the WiMax system. One more praise for this book...The index is really well done. I'm not sure what it is, but when referring back to this book for information when I'm working, I find it easily in the index. They must be doing something right. Most technical books have me just flipping through the book to find information becuase the index doesn't help get you to the specific item you need.