Creating uniform, converged communications networks has been – and still is – the holy grail in telecommunications, and fixed mobile convergence (FMC) is front and center in service providers' plans. In the new book, Fixed Mobile Convergence (McGraw-Hill, 2008), well-known telecommunications experts Alex Shneyderman and Alessio Casati explain how to consolidate fixed, mobile, wireless and wireless networks into a seamless mobility ecosystem.
Written for a global audience of network managers, architects, product managers, engineers and wireless professionals, the book addresses how to create FMC-based networks, services and solutions, how to support advanced technologies and converge them with legacy networks.
In this chapter download, The M in FMC, the authors take you from mobile communications systems fundamentals to an analysis of different cellular generations, to WiMAX, voice over WiFi and the technical roadblocks to its widespread deployment.
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