DESIGN AND BUILD -- ANYWHERE IN THE WORLDThe 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 -- * 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