Bluetooth Demystified - Softcover

J. Muller, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071363238 ISBN 13: 9780071363235

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2000

Synopsis

Bluetooth is a wireless networking standard that allows seamless communication of voice, email and such like. This guide to Bluetooth helps to figure out if it's right for your products and services. It details the strengths and weaknesses of Bluetooth and has coverage of applications and products.

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Review:

Wireless communication is slowly becoming reality. In a wireless world, a printer is installed automatically after it is powered on. Keyboard and mouse cables no longer become hopelessly tangled. Palm Pilots and mobile phones automatically synchronise and communicate. Providing this sort of seamless, wireless communication--at a low cost--is the goal of Bluetooth technology.

Bluetooth Demystified is a solid overview of Bluetooth technology for data communication professionals who want to learn more about this new wireless specification. In many ways, it mirrors the official and more technical Bluetooth 1.0 specification (available online). For those familiar with the official specification, many of the diagrams will be familiar, and much of the basic information is the same. This book does not provide explicit information for programmers looking to implement Bluetooth support, but if you want an accessible introduction to Bluetooth technology, it does the job.

Structured to provide an increasingly technical overview of Bluetooth, the book begins with a general overview of wireless technology and provides the motivation for Bluetooth. This creates a solid foundation for the following chapters, which give technical descriptions of the various Bluetooth communication protocols. Chapters on security and proposed usage models flesh out this new wireless communication specification.

New technology platforms always require a critical mass before becoming a broadly accepted standard, and Bluetooth is no different. Success for this technology is not guaranteed, even though an impressive list of companies have promised to implement Bluetooth in their products. Whether Bluetooth is the next Microsoft BOB or the next Palm Pilot remains to be seen. --Pete Ostenson

From the Back Cover:

Understand the Bluetooth standard. Compare its strengths and weaknesses against other technologies. Preview coming products and applications. See the protocols and usage models at work. BLUETOOTH DEMYSTIFIED Cut through Bluetooth's complexity with this special tutorial, Bluetooth Demystified. This user-friendly guide provides a basic introduction and overview, then helps you find your way through the various applications and network configurations of the new Bluetooth wireless technology. Along the way, you'll get a revealing peek at how this promising technology will improve productivity and add new levels of convenience and flexibility to our lives. Already chosen by more than 1000 companies seeking wireless solutions that seamlessly integrate PDAs, mobile phones, desktop computers, and LANs-- voice, e-mail, Internet, and data--Bluetooth is long on complexity. That's why you need this introduction to the new wireless standard from Nathan J. Muller--a technology expert who makes the Bluetooth standard understandable. Meticulously organized and highly readable, Bluetooth Demystified delves into every major aspect of the standard with contents that include: *Bluetooth Basics *Bluetooth Operation *radio *link manager *protocols *transport interfaces -*audio -*low-power modes *Issues and Applications *security *complementary technologies *markets *the latest products *A handy glossary that puts key names, terms, and phrases at your fingertips If you're looking for clear, authoritative, and easily accessible answers to your Bluetooth questions, your search is over.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0071363238
• ISBN 13: 9780071363235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416