Design and build - anywhere in the world. The only thoroughly modern reference on microwave transmission network engineering and management, expert Harvey Lehpamer's stellar "Microwave Transmission Networks" provides hands-on help that speeds every step of planning, designing, building, and testing systems built to both North American and ITU standards.Offering in-depth help you'll use every day, from feasibility studies to actual hardware rollouts, this valuable and easy-to-understand resource helps project managers, engineers, and planners to: understand, design, and build microwave point-to-point networks - long- or short-haul, North American or ITU standards; expedite the analysis and the design process using internationally accepted models; calculate loss/attenuation, fading and fade margins, quality, and availability and perform interference analysis; get need-to-know answers on microwave link engineering; perform expert testing from design stage through acceptance; handle hardware issues from housings to antenna mounts and beyond; understand and track microwave network rollouts; manage maintenance, regulatory issues, ethical dilemmas, and logistical and organizational challenges; understand other microwave systems like Point-to-Multipoint, WLANs, and Bluetooth as well as microwave systems for rapid deployment; and, more.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Transmission Network FundamentalsChapter 2: Basics of Microwave CommunicationChapter 3: Microwave Link DesignChapter 4: Planning the Microwave NetworkChapter 5: Microwave Network DesignChapter 6: Microwave DeploymentChapter 7: Project ManagementAPPENDIX A: AMERICAN CABLE STRANDINGAPPENDIX B: QUICK RF REFERENCE SHEETAPPENDIX C: UNITS OF CONVERSIONGLOSSARYINDEX

About the Author

Harvey Lehpamer owns HL Telecom Consulting in San Diego, California, a firm supplying engineering expertise to different clients. He has over 20 years' experience in the planning, design, and deployment of microwave and other transmission networks around the world. In the past, he worked at both Ericsson Wireless Communications, Inc. and Qualcomm, Inc. Mr. Lehpamer is also the author of Transmission Systems Design Handbook for Wireless Networks (Artech House, 2002). He can be reached at HL_2@hotmail.com or through his website www.hltelecomconsulting.com.