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"absolutely worth picking up" - by RouterGuy on 13-JAN-2011
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I guess this will be a counterpoint to the 1 star review left on this book (the only other review at the time I write this).

This book is targeted at CCIE, or candidate CCIE, level readers.  If you have a fair amount of experience working with the technology the book is talking about, it should increase your level of knowledge about the various under-the-hood mechanics that comprise a unified wireless deployment.

If you don't have much experience working with wireless, then I could see how the structure of the book would be a bit confusing.  Read the preface - the author makes it clear that while the book can be read straight through, the intent is for you the reader to be able to cherry pick information out of the various chapters as it suits you.

And that's how this book works for me, and works very well.  There is a limit to the fundamental knowledge you can gain about any technology simply by repeatedly deploying it in what tend to be variation-on-a-theme customer environments.  CCIE level knowledge means that you have such a deep understanding of the technology, from theory to deployment and troubleshooting, that you are able to deal with corner case situations better than most due to your comprehensive knowledge of the technology and its integration with the rest of the network.

I give this book 5 stars, and would recommend it to anyone who wants to step up their wireless game, regardless of any intention to actually shoot for the wireless IE.
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"Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco Wireless LAN C" - by Jimbo on 02-JUL-2010
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The information in this book might be pretty good, may be reasonably accurate, and given that it was only writtten last year, it should be timely. I say all this in hope, but I'm having a hard time getting much out of it. The problem lies with the way it was written: its odd initial sequence (who STARTS a book with "Troubleshooting Strategy and Implimentation"?) should have given me a warning, but I ignored it...The whole book is a tangled mass of repetition, of stating the obvious, odd directions and dead ends. The author clearly has a lot of information he wants to get across, but he has inadequate tools with which to do it; no idea how to structure the information to draw the reader through the process of learning. I'm a techie, I've been engineering since the early '70's, and I know technical books are not always an easy read, but this one takes the prize.

This book shows all the characteristics of a good and clever engineer trying to punch above his weight in the field of documentation, and frankly, failing to get his knowledge across to his reader. If he can't do it himself, he would be better advised to get it ghost written; that way readers can benefit from his knowledge, and (please!) someone else's ability to transfer that knowledge to the written word. It's a good thing its cheaper than some Cisco books, or it would be going straight back.
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