Wireless LANs were once seen as the easy alternative to the wired LAN. After all, they weren't used for primary network access and they didn't have to be eternally stable or particularly far-reaching.

The present and future of enterprise wireless networking stirred up interest at the NetWorld+Interop conference here, with vendors presenting systems for existing and planned WLAN (wireless LAN) ...

Results are in from the fourth annual Kubernan Wireless LAN State-of-the-Market survey. Responses from subscribers to Webtorials, a networking educational Web site, were culled in June from about 300 ...

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 ...

Last week I began discussing a few recent industry efforts to render wireless LANs up to the task of reliably supporting VoIP phone calls. Among the issues: latency, security, emergency calling, and ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

Cellular carriers and conventional telephone companies have latched on to public access wireless LANs as a cheap way of offering high-speed mobile data services to customers. VoiceStream Wireless Corp ...

Well, a network is a group of computer systems connected to share resources and communicate. It is also a collection of devices and computers linked together via transmission media and communication ...

In the modern office environment, each worker is equipped with a personal computer with its own processor and multiple disk drives. The computer may be free-standing (very much the exception these ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 10 Wireless LANs from the book Hacking for Dummies written by Kevin Beaver and published by Wiley Publishing. You can download the entire ...

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, ...