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Wireless LAN for Enterprises

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Overview A wireless local area network enables its user to be connected to a local area network without any cable. This emerging technology is gaining a lot of interest from the user community, but is also source of many unsolved problems. This paper looks at the major standards in wireless LAN technology driven by IEEE as well as the ongoing efforts to deliver new standards to address some of the issues. This paper also addresses the principal objections to the complete adoption of wireless LAN, such as security. Not only technical issues prevent wireless LANs from being adopted today; local regulations increase the complexity of internationalization. While the wireless LAN is designed to offer mobility, this has some trade off for users and data security.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Alcatel	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Wireless LAN

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Broadband & ISPs

Major stores beam credit card details to the car park

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Security Strategy

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Comment & Analysis

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Hackers turn to dictionary to invade Cisco WLANs

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Publisher:
EMC

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Publisher:
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Publisher:
EMC

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