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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sooner or later you will want to consider deploying a wireless LAN around your facility; or maybe you already have one. In any case, there are some basic guidelines that must be followed to make the ...

When wireless LANs first became available in the early 1990s, primary applications were wireless bar code solutions for needs like inventory control and retail price marking. Data transfers for these ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The latest challenge confronting ...

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 ...

ROI analysis for any technology typically involves calculations that show how a given solution saves money, makes money or both. Wireless LAN ROI analysis is no exception. However, the experiences ...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been locked in various dark rooms (OK, it’s not as bad as that) performing benchmark tests on a number of wireless LAN systems. Some of the products tested were ...

Wireless vendors are using NetWorld+Interop 2001 to unveil the faster (and smaller) future of wireless LANs. Attendees will get to see what may be the first public demonstration of an 802.11a wireless ...

Wireless local area network adapters are add-on devices that enable you to connect to wireless networks like at the office or hotel. These adapters can be added to either desktop or laptop computers, ...