WIRELESS NETWORKING

Increased use of laptop computers within the enterprise, and increase in worker mobility have fuelled the demand for wireless networks. Up until recently, wireless technology was a patchwork of incompatible systems from a variety of vendors.

The technology was slow, expensive and reserved for mobile situations or hostile environments where cabling was impractical or impossible. With the maturing of industry standards and the deployment of lightweight wireless networking hardware across a broad market section, wireless technology has come of age.

We are presenting this KnowledgeShare in a Q&A (Questions and Answers) format that we hope will be useful. We are dealing with the subject on a general basis and so the information offered here should apply to most wireless networking devices. We welcome feedback and comments from any readers on the usefulness or content.

We are providing the best information available to us as of date of writing and intend to update it at frequent intervals as things change and/or more information becomes available. However we intend this KnowledgeShare as a guide only and recommend that users obtain specific information to determine applicability to their specific requirements. (This is another way of saying that we can't be held liable or responsible for the content).