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Residential Broadband : An Insider's Guide to the Battle for the Last Mile
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Author: Kim Maxwell
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 0471251658
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (23 November, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 43,589
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
good overview of xDSL and cablemodem systems, but wordy
The book explains the historical background that influenced the design of today's residential broadband systems.
Rating: 5 out of 5
extremely provocative, very well informed
I admire the author of this book for being provocative, as opposed to simply cataloguing information in the way that virtually all other books of this ilk do.I don't fully agree with all of Maxwell's predictions -- in particular, his guess that ATM will have a much larger role to play in this part of the network -- but he identifies all the issues. Hats off for a tech book with a strong point of view and a ton of great insight.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Too narrow-minded
The book gives a good historical perspective, but fails on two major levels (both highly predictive): (1) the author obviously buys into the current baby bell hype and chooses xDSL as a superior technology to cable modems. (2) wireless communications are completely dismissed as cost prohibitive.
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