Upgrading and Repairing PCs (19th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Great reference covering the most recent technologies. I've been following the series since the 3rd edition and each one has been worth its weight in gold! If only Amazon knew, I would be willing to pay in excess of $200.00 for this! ;D My personal last edition was the 13th, so this will make a fine addition to the library.
I love how Scott covers the history, and even though there have been complaints on earlier editions of this inclusion of past technologies, it is valuable information.
This edition was a Christmas gift to my brother who is now getting into computer repair. After a few days, he is eating the book up alive! Amazon was great in its shipment and technically was not going to release it until a couple of days before Christmas, however they not only made an earlier release date but got it to me before Christmas. I'll be purchasing a copy for my self after this review!
If your in doubt as whether to purchase this, don't be. This is a very inexpensive way to add to your understanding, what could take you "forever" in your Google searches!

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Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good resource for learning WCF. It covers a ton of topics and they are shown in the context of real world applications.
The book starts out with a few chapters introducing WCF and Hosting possibilities.
It then contains chapter on securing an enterprise (intranet) as well as what it takes to secure a service exposed to the internet. These are great chapters, but a little confusing when it comes to the certificate deployment to the clients. I also would have like to have seen how to specifically secure Ajax and WPF clients over the internet.
The book then covers transactions, reliable sessions, performance, discovery, routing, REST, asynchronous operations, workflows, state, and data contracts.
The main thing I like about the book is the attempt to show real world situations.
The main thing I thought the book could use was some diagrams (UML or whatever) to help describe the execution of some of the code being explained and to help show some context. I would have also liked to see a complete chapter on just configuration. None of the books I have seen on WCF have very good details on configuration.
The code samples are well organized and very usable.
This is a book that must be read. It is not a quick reference. That is not a bad thing, the explanations are thorough, just not in a quick look up format.
All in all I recommend reading this book. It contains a ton of information and is one of the better WCF 4 books available.

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Building the Mobile Internet (Networking Technology) Review

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(More customer reviews)Do you need to increase your understanding of how mobility can be supported in IP networking? If you do, then this book is for you! Authors Mark Grayson, Kevin Shatzkamer and Klaas Wierenga have done an outstanding job of writing a book that examines the different techniques for building mobility into the Internet.
Authors Grayson, Shatzkamer and Wierenga, begin by defining the mobility market in terms of device proliferation, consumption trends and radio-specific challenges in scaling for massive adoption of the mobile Internet. They also explain the protocols and layers that make up the Internet architecture; as well as, the fundamental problem with that architecture in supporting mobility. The authors continue by describing how users and devices are authenticated for using the network and its applications; in particular, those that are not operated by the operator that the user has a subscription with. Then, they explain the benefits of solving mobility at the data link layer. Next, they provide an overview of a number of network layer solutions for delivering seamless mobility and session continuity. The authors also describe the advantages of integrating mobility functionality into transport/session layer. They continue by describing how the application layer can be enhanced with additional mobility functionality, thus allowing advanced mobility use cases to be supported, including the ability to move media sessions between different devices. Finally, the authors provide an overview of the approaches fro redesigning the Internet architecture to allow better mobility; as well as, a discussion of the pros and cons of some typical examples of those approaches.
This most excellent book takes a look at mobility from a broad perspective of use cases and examines how mobility solutions are in fact pervasive across all layers of the protocol stack. Perhaps more importantly, the book provides details of how mobility functionality has been added to these layers and describes use cases that demonstrate the different approaches to building the mobile Internet.

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The complete guide to technologies and protocols for delivering seamless mobile Internet experiencesIn Building the MobileInternet, three leading mobility architects and implementers from Cisco present complete foundational knowledge about tomorrow's mobile Internet. The authors cover everything from market trends and user expectations to the latest technical approaches for making the Internet "mobile by design." Writing for senior technology decision-makers and network design professionals, the authors explain the relatively static nature of the Internet's original protocols and design, discuss the concept of "mobility," and identify evolving mobility requirements. Next, they thoroughly explain each of today's most promising techniques for building mobility into the Internet, from data link layer to application layer. For each layer, the authors cover mechanisms, protocols, relevant Wi-Fi and cellular architectures, and key use cases.Using this book's guidance, mobile network executives can define more effective strategies, network designers can construct more effective architectures, and network engineers can execute more successful migrations. Mark Grayson, Cisco Distinguished Consulting Engineer, leads Cisco's mobile architecture strategy. He has 20+ years of wireless experience ranging from military and satellite systems to the evolution of traditional cellular architectures and the creation of new small cell solutions. He has been granted 50+ patents. Kevin Shatzkamer, Cisco Distinguished Systems Architect, is responsible for long-term strategy and architectural evolution of Cisco mobile wireless networks. His experience ranges from 3G and LTE to security, video distribution, and QoS. He now works with both content providers and service providers to enhance the end-to-end digital media value chain for mobility. Klaas Wierenga, Senior Consulting Engineer in Cisco's Office of the CTO, has 15+ years of experience implementing diverse mobility, security, and identity solutions for enterprises, municipalities, hospitals, and universities. He created the worldwide eduroam service for federated network access in academia.· Understanding key mobility market trends: device proliferation, accelerating consumption, and radio-specific scalability problems· Reviewing the challenges that mobility presents to conventional Internet architectures· Understanding nomadicity, including authentication for users moving across networks and operators· Identifying opportunities to address mobility at the data link layer· Comparing and using network layer solutions to deliver seamless mobility and session continuity· Integrating mobility functionality into the transport/session layer· Adding mobility functionality to the application layer–including support for moving media sessions between devices· Redesigning Internet architecture to enable long-term improvements to mobilityThis book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

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Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks: Principles, Protocols and Applications Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a must have for anyone wanting solid information on IMS. This is some of the best IMS reference materials with only around 300 pages. You can't beat the value this book offers.
The authors do an incredible job in explaining IMS to readers. I enjoyed the layout of this book for the "modular design" it contained within its sessions. The first session of this book is dedicated to high-level architecture and the foundations of IMS. It is easy to understand the values of IMS such as session control, service blending, QoS, flexible charging and the evolution with key elements in control, bearer, and application planes. Once you have a good grasp from session 1, session 2 further breaks down various essences of IMS into components. This is very helpful in getting the background information such as SIP, SDP, MSRP, XML, and Diameter for building IMS serving certain types of purposes.
Session 3 are dedicated to the `enablers' of IMS OMA. These chapters include information on these OMA enablers' design purposes, features, values provided to subscribers and how to implement them. The book is written in an easy to follow layout.
Session 4 is most interesting session by reading various vignettes to get into the contexts of IMS in real world implementations. The IMS service delivery framework are laid out for high-level viewing on what and how IMS new services are designed, introduced and maintained. The authors did a marvelous job on these real-world scenarios to help readers fully understand how IMS relates to everyone's life.
I believe that anyone reading this book will benefit from the information presented, no matter how the depth the readers expect on IMS real world implementations. The book helps in these areas and more. The real bonus of this book is written by three experts from AT&T. It's by far the best IMS book I have ever read. Grab it and read a few pages, you will find how indispensable this book is.


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Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Charging for Mobile All-IP book is a good beginning place for those new to the Billing Models for the new systems. It has enough detail to be useful as a starting point for the more detailed issues. It gives a general idea on call flow and is very good at providing the terminology in this part of the Telephony, IMS, and IT charging systems.


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This book provides a complete and comprehensive overview of 3G UMTS charging services

Evolving from offline billing of traditional telecommunications, charging for IP services in mobile networks is challenging; charging convergence is one of the major trends in the telecom industry. Advanced mobile telecommunications incorporates data applications with real-time control and management, and requires a convergent and flexible online charging system. Such convergence is essential to mitigate fraud and credit risks in order to provide more personalized information to users about charges and credit limit controls.

Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications provides comprehensive and practical coverage of online and offline charging based on mobile operator experiences, and the latest efforts undertaken by the UMTS specifications.

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Presents a complete overview of the telecommunications charging system, including the evolution from 2G to 3G and all-IP network charging frameworks
Discusses all management aspects related to charging and billing processes, with a focus on the major trends and developments within the telecoms industry
Provides an overview of the telecom networks such as PSTN, GSM, UMTS and IMS
Covers the concepts of the telecom charging on mobile services and the new technologies for implementing online charging system, such as GTP' and Diameter protocol
Contains coverage on network nodes and data flows in relation to charging of mobile applications, such as IMS call and content downloading
Explains the IP-based online charging system, protocol details and recent trends in charging for mobile telecom industry


This book is an invaluable resource for graduate students, telecoms and IP engineers, network service providers and system architects. Information technologists and networking equipment manufacturers will also find this book insightful.

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