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IEEE 802.11b Wireless LANs
White Papers With the recent adoption of new standards for high-rate wireless LANs, mobile users can realize levels of performance, throughput, and availability comparable to those of traditional wired Ethernet. This paper describes the new IEEE 802.11b...
[November 9, 2003, 23:00]
WiFi For Wireless LANs
News Why can't wireless local area network (LAN) hardware all just get along? The Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance says it can. The year-old standards body, know as WECA, announced on Wednesday that it has created an interoperability test which...
[March 16, 2000, 9:27]
Wireless LANs - Standards And Security
News Well, of course you can't literally hear RF waves, but wireless LANs (WLANs) are certainly being planted in IT networks from east to west. Over the past year, much has been written about the vulnerabilities of 802.11 wireless LANs.
[May 8, 2002, 9:42]
Intel Deal Clears Fast Wi-Fi For UK Sale
News Although 802.11a wireless LANs are already on sale in the US, they were not expected to be available anywhere in Europe until the end of the year, because they do not have approval from the regulator, ETSI.a operates at up to 54 megabits per...
[March 11, 2002, 15:14]
Intel Introduces Fast Wi-Fi To Europe
News The availability of fast wireless LANs in Europe is the result of Intel's negotiations with regulatory authorities in various European countries, and the 802.11a products are therefore only available in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium...
[May 28, 2002, 17:06]
Bluetooth Exiled From LAN Of Hope And Glory
News Some of those functions now look more likely to be carried out by wireless LANs, even in the home, according to experts. The US doesn't look like it will be a huge Bluetooth supporter, because most of the wireless LANs, especially in the offices...
[April 5, 2001, 7:41]
Smile, You're On Wi-Fi
News This product is among the first devices to combine digital videography and wireless LANs (local area networks) that use the Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, standard. High bandwidth LANs and Storage Area Networks are now in common use.
[July 10, 2002, 8:58]
Dell And Startup Team On Wireless Access For Notebooks
News In a survey of 200 technology managers with midsize to larger companies, the market researcher found that 21 percent use wireless LANs and 50 percent had plans to use the technology. Two-thirds of the companies with wireless LANs had adopted...
[February 21, 2001, 9:25]
Faster WLAN Promise May Obscure Benefits Of Current Products
News Users will pay this to future proof their wireless LANs," he said. Both Intel and Agere talk about a big market arriving for 802.11 LANs. Suppliers are launching wireless LAN equipment which will be ready for higher speed transmission when...
[October 8, 2001, 19:25]
HiperLAN Collapse Opens European Door To 802.11a
News Wireless LANs running at 54 megabits per second (mbps) could be available in the UK within six months, although politics could delay it till the end of 2002. The IEEE is adding DFS (dynamic frequency selection) and TPC (transmit power control...
[December 18, 2001, 15:34]
Forum: The Fate Of Wireless Security
News Wireless local area networks, or LANs, let anyone with a laptop and a modem get wireless Internet access from up to 300 feet away. Although wireless LANs operate through the 802.11 standard, there is an alphabet soup of versions of 802.11 that have...
[May 14, 2002, 9:46]
Orinoco Floats WLAN Management Tool
News Wireless LANs so far do not have multi-vendor management and, although this product can manage Orinoco kit with other badges on, such as Compaq or ELSA, it cannot manage Cisco, Intel or 3Com access points.
[July 5, 2002, 7:57]
Nortel Touts Secure Wi-Fi For Enterprise
News Nortel's products address the main objections to wireless LANs from enterprise IT managers: security, manageability, and the uncertainties of roaming between access points. However, he expects wireless LANs to change the corporate network completely.
[March 31, 2003, 17:15]
Cisco Systems Hosts Speaker Series And Webcast Highlighting Wireless LAN Security
White Papers Wireless LANs offer the full promise of mobility and productivity, however there are industry concerns regarding security. In this session, Larry will discuss the security issues with reference to wireless LANs.
[July 21, 2003, 0:00]
Introducing Smartcards For Wireless LAN Security
White Papers Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11b have emerged as a new standard but still a lot of security issues remain. This paper focuses the work on the integration of smartcards for authentication in wireless networks.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Securing Wireless Networks
White Papers They are High Powered Microwave systems used by telephone companies for long haul, line-of-sight communications, CDMA/TDMA/GSM (cellular and PCS) networks used for wireless phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) and wireless LANs (WLANs...
[November 7, 2003, 0:29]
Defining A Successful Wireless Solution
White Papers The business case for wireless LANs became very strong and thousands of businesses implemented the technology after the 802.11b standard was established, but now new, higher-speed standards are requiring businesses to rethink their infrastructure...
[February 12, 2008, 12:13]
Intelligent Infrastructure For The 21st Century
White Papers Using laptops and other devices equipped with wireless networking cards that conform to the IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi) standard [802.11], ever more corporations are connecting employees to their business LANs over wireless links, achieving the benefit...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
Load Balancing For QoS Enhancement In IEEE 802.11e WLANs Using Cell Breathing Techniques
White Papers A new draft of the standard named 802.11e has been specified that deals with QoS issues for Wireless LANs. Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have become increasingly popular over the last number of years.
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
Wireless LAN Security
White Papers This low cost, combined with strong performance andease of deployment, mean that many departments and individuals already use 802.11b, at home or at work - even if IT staff andsecurity management administrators do not yet recognize wireless LANs...
[December 31, 2003, 1:34]
