“Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about.” —The Economist, “A Book of the Year 2016”
 
In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Its constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit was a mind-boggling technical...

"This book highlights the Internet of Things (IoT) and business models in the telecom industry. It assesses IoT's impact on the telecom industry's revenue streams, carries out a PESTLE analysis of the industry and IoT, and identifies key technological drivers"--

Intelligent Sensing and Communications for Internet of Everything introduces three application scenarios of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), large-scale machine connection (mMTC) and ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC). A new communication model, namely backscatter communication (BackCom), intelligent reflector surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology in Internet of Everything (IoE), is described in detail. Also focusing...

This book on performance fundamentals covers UNIX, OpenVMS, Linux, Windows, and MVS. Most of the theory and systems design principles can be applied to other operating systems, as can some of the benchmarks. The book equips professionals with the ability to assess performance characteristics in unfamiliar environments. It is suitable for practitioners, especially those whose responsibilities include performance management, tuning, and capacity planning....

From queues to telecoms. Queues are, of course, omnipresent in our world, at the bank, the supermarket, the shops, on the road... and yes, they also exist in the domain of telecoms. Queues Applied to Telecoms studies the theoretical aspect of these queues, from Poisson processes, Markov chains and queueing systems to queueing networks. The study of the use of their resources is addressed by the theory of teletraffic. This book also outlines the basic...

Meraki is one of Cisco's hottest product families. It is a unique Cloud Managed platform into which many product lines can be added. Cloud Managed IT networks are still quite new to traditional Cisco buyers. Securing Enterprise Networks with Cisco Meraki is a one-stop shop for readers looking to deploy secure enterprises on Meraki. Each section will cover best practices, design, configuration, and troubleshooting. Within each chapter, readers will...

A comprehensive study in efficient multi-rate teletraffic loss models used for designing, performance analysis, and optimization of systems and networks Efficient Multirate Teletraffic Loss Models Beyond Erlang is an easy-to-read book filled with numerous efficient teletraffic loss models. Presented in three sections-Teletraffic Models of Random Input, Teletraffic Models of Quasi-Random Input, and Teletraffic Models of Batched Poisson Input-it covers...

"The book will focus on making the environment sustainable in the current scenario of 5G technologies. It will explore concepts of wireless sensing applications, computing technologies and their related analytics techniques involved in real time applications of healthcare, agriculture, construction and manufacturing, which all require an active generation of sustainability, digitization and intelligence which has become important in the academic world,...