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802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide

Overview Planning a wireless LAN installation is a significant undertaking that cuts across many previously disparate disciplines. This paper begins the discussion of wireless LAN deployment by tackling the network architecture. Network design is about trade-offs between several factors, including cost, manageability, availability, and performance. Wireless networks add the additional dimension of mobility to the mix. The paper discusses four approaches to building a wireless LAN.

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Publisher	O'Reilly Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2005	Downloads	4
Format	Book chapters
Topics	Wireless LAN, Infrastructure Management, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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