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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks Publisher: Apress Authors: Daniel Sweeney Rating: 5/5  First up! Daniel Sweeney has come up with one of the first authoritative guides to WiMax. With the huge success of WiFi in many countries, some people have chafed at its short range of 100 meters or so, and its relatively low bandwidth. In response, the IEEE has come up with a standard, 802.16, better known as WiMax. It can offer some 70 Mbps, compared to 2Mbps for WiFi, and at a range of several kilometers. Very nice. But WiMax introduces new complications, compared to a much simpler WiFi network. No one in the world has yet built an operational WiMax network that is available for public use. Though of course there has been small scale prototyping, which has undoubtedly helped the IEEE define the current WiMax standard. Sweeney describes here what the features of a WiMax network would be. This book is not restricted to a hard core audience of hardware engineers or software developers. Instead, he has written it as a level accessible to technical managers, who might be considering such a network. There is roughly equal emphasis on both the technical issues of signal propagation and on the business issues of building and running the network. Still early days yet for WiMax. Which is in fact one of the attractions of this book. Sweeney has given us enough information to seriously contemplate the top level design and economics of a network. Ahead of the curve.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: The Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology Publisher: Wiley Authors: Rich Seifert Rating: 5/5 The main reason I'm writing this review is that I feel that this book is not getting the readership it "rich"ly deserves.Rich covers the basics of Lans with elan (all puns copyrighted).You will understand the concepts and implementation of bridging thus allowing you to view routing in a better perspective.Rich's laws of networking are absolutely gems: a chapter summarized into a line.His excellent and generous use of flowcharts and diagrams deserve some stars by themselves.Also the description of the protocols, the tradeoffs made during their design leaves you with an insight as to how to (and in some cases how not to) design a working protocol. The last chapter is a gem - it covers the life of a packet as it enters the bridge till it exits on one of the ports.If you're a router guy, read this and you'll never sneer at a bridge again. The explanations are lucid,simple to the point and are peppered with the odd bad engineering joke (better than Radia Perlman's sarcasm :)]I bought this book based on other readers recommendations and am glad for the same. This book is a networking bible along with those by Stevens,Comer,Perlman and of course thomas maufer. While you can more or less read any chapter in isolation, you are recommended to go in order to maximize your output from this book. PS: A layer 1 switch is a shared hub or a repeater * A layer 2 switch is a bridge * A layer 3 switch is a router * The rest of this review was lost due to collisions on the lan. Back off Rich,Back off !! :)
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: OCP Oracle9i Database: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Authors: Daniel Benjamin Rating: 4/5  This book is good to get through the exam provided that one isalready having enough knowledge and experience. I got my 9i Certificate recently while relying 90% on this book. I have the following observations about the book:1: It covers all the exam objective.2: The book is purely written to take exam , and not for in depth knowledge.3: Self test software has a lot of wrong answers.4: Practice exams in the book are fairly simple and straightforward that is not the case in Real Exam.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Computer Forensics : Incident Response Essentials Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Warren G. Kruse II, Jay G. Heiser Rating: 4/5 This book gives a broad overview of computer forensics. It touches on a number of topics but does not go deeply into any one particular area. The book is suitable for people who have no experience with computer forensics. I suspect people with a lot of experience in the field will be disappointed at what this book has to offer.One commendable feature is a list of tools that are suitable for dealing with particular situations. Unfortunately many of the tools are only available commercially. A great introduction but stay away if you are looking for in depth treatment.
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