Wireless Mobility: The Why of Wireless

by Neil P. Reid

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071628631
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/05/2010
Series:	Networking Professional's Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	608
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Neil Reid has been at Cisco Systems since 1999 and is the Senior Business Development Manager on its U.S. mobility channels team. He speaks internationally to industry professionals and academics on mobility subjects, such as value propositions and success metrics, complex RF propagation, and project sequencing. Reid is the co-author of Wi-Fi (802.11) Network Handbook and the author of Broadband Fixed Wireless Networks.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Why Wireless?; Chapter 2. The Business of Untethering; Chapter 3. Mobility and the CIO; Chapter 4. Virtualization and Mobility; Chapter 5. Value Propositions and Success Metrics in Education and Healthcare; Chapter 6. Wireless Network Assessments; Chapter 7. Optimal Project Sequencing; Chapter 8. Finance Strategies for Wireless Mobility; Chapter 9. System Integrator--Mobility Practice Resilience; Chapter 10. Next-Generation Mobility; Chapter 11. Mobility and Intelligent Buildings; Appendix A. Mobility Glossary; Appendix B. Relevant Mobility Standards; Appendix C. Key Mobility Groups and Information; Index