Section 05
Devices & Deployment
The terminal and the site. The terminal in the hand and the site on the hill — the unglamorous half of a network.
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05.1
What Is Inside the TerminalFront end, modem, and the parts that decide battery life.
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05.2
Putting a Network on the GroundSites, backhaul, power and the unglamorous half of coverage.
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The Air Interface
What happens between antenna and antenna.
- What Actually Travels Between a Handset and a Mast
- Modulation, Plainly
- What an Antenna Is Doing
- Noise, Interference and the Floor
Standards & Generations
Who writes the rules and what changed when.
- What Each Generation Actually Changed
- The Protocol Stack, Layer by Layer
- How a Standard Gets Written
Critical Communications
Networks built to work on the worst day.
- Why Critical Networks Are Built Differently
- Push-to-Talk and Group Calls
- Designing for the Bad Day
Spectrum & Networks
Dividing the airwaves and covering ground.
- How Spectrum Gets Divided
- Why Physics Changes With Frequency
- Cells, Reuse and Handover