Systems engineering principles and details needed to implement wireless broadband applications are covered in this work, concentrating on ATM networking methods with emphasis on traffic management and QoS issues. The book offers a perspective on the impact of the wireless component and presents an engineering-level treatment of all relevant topics, explaining how new broadband wireless technologies, such as LMDs, are being deployed between the customer edge and the provider edge networks. Sreetharan is president of a computer consultancy and holds degrees in electrical engineering. Subramaniam works as an engineer in the private sector.