Artech House

To be successful in today's satellite communications marketplace, you know that business savvy counts as much as technical expertise. This informative new book gives you the management insight and expertise needed to successfully operate satellite systems as business ventures. Based on the author's more than 25 years experience in developing and managing satellite systems, the book explains how to master the complexities of deploying satellite systems while reaching overall business objectives.

In a few short years, the Ethernet has evolved from a local to a total area networking technology. This volume explains the technical details of the main Ethernet family members, starting with the familiar 10Base-T, through Fast Ethernet, to the latest Gigabit Ethernet and wireless variants.

This reference offers practical explanations of the full range of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). It focuses mainly on bipolar technology to demonstrate circuits, but CMOS is included as well. By emphasizing working designs, it seeks to transport the reader into the authors' own RFIC lab so that you can understand the function of each design detailed in the text. Among the RFIC designs examined are RF integrated LC-based filters, VCO automatic amplitude control loops, and fully-integrated transformer-based circuits, as well as image reject mixers and power amplifiers.

The book addresses IPsec’s major aspects and components to help you evaluate and compare features of different implementations. It gives you a detailed understanding of this cutting-edge technology from the inside, which enables you to more effectively troubleshoot problems with specific products. Based on standards documents, discussion list archives, and practitioners’ lore, this one-of-a-kind resource collects all the current knowledge of IPsec and describes it in a literate, clear manner.

Internet and wireless technologies are converging towards an exciting future that we've only begun to realize. For professionals who have a background in the Internet or in mobile telephony - but not in both - this integrated "how it works" guide offers a practical understanding of wireless Internet communications, the technology components involved, and how they fit and work together.

Since computers were introduced to automate organization management, information system evolution has influenced data management considerably. Applications demand more and more services from information stored in computing systems. These new services impose more stringent conditions on the currently prevailing client/server architectures and relational database management systems (DBMSs).

A comprehensive and broad introduction to computer and intrusion forensics, this practical work is designed to help you master the tools, techniques and underlying concepts you need to know, covering the areas of law enforcement, national security and the private sector.