As we explained in Lesson four, wireless computer networks are becoming a major part of the networking market. This is true not only for residences, but also for commercial installations. PROTOCOLS ...

Wireless LANs (WLANs) have hit the mainstream, and like other fast-moving technologies, have done so without much explanation of what they are, how they work or what they can do. These networks rely ...

With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

Wireless computer networks are becoming a hot item not only for residences, but for commercial installations as well. When installing a wireless system in a home, the main wireless panel will be ...

Wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) have been around for years, but how can state and local governments manage wireless networks efficiently and effectively from an enterprise perspective? Assuming ...

Wireless LANs are still 10 times slower than modern switched Ethernet LANs and are more than twice the price, and they cannot deliver the total site capacity of their wired Ethernet cousins. In the ...

College students have led the charge in ditching wired LANs for wireless ones. Now businesses are following suit as 802.11n products emerge. For years, this was one of those non-arguments. Who in ...

META Trend: The campus/LAN will become increasingly application aware (2003/04), as products incorporate expanded services such as quality of service, security, and user-based policy. By YE02, 75% of ...

There’s much talk in the press about the explosive growth in wireless LAN usage and how this is the hot spot (no pun intended) for wireless technology. On the flip side, there are the actual users of ...

A federal agency is readying a report that will recommend against the U.S. government using wireless LANs — except when applying a long, detailed list of security controls. Even though wireless LANs ...

As the airline industry scrambles to meet a Jan. 18 deadline to screen every checked bag for explosives, security experts, analysts and government officials are raising serious concerns about the ...

Cellular carriers and conventional telephone companies have latched on to public access wireless LANs as a cheap way of offering high-speed mobile data services to customers. VoiceStream Wireless Corp ...