Wireless Lan's: End to End

  • Authors:
  • III Walter Bruce;Ron Gilster

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Lan's: End to End
  • Year:
  • 2002

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From the Publisher:A Practical Guide for Today's IT ProfessionalsComprehensive "End-to-End" CoverageReal-World Examples, Strategies, and SolutionsA wireless local area network increases workplace flexibility while cutting costs. But how do you build and maintain a WLAN that's reliable, secure, and meets your organization's needs? This practical guide delivers the answers. Offering exceptionally detailed coverage of two key ingredients for WLAN success-an initial site survey and a well-thought-out security plan-Wireless LANs End to End gives you all the nuts-and-bolts information and examples you need to design, install, configure, and administer a wireless LAN.Make the Most of Wireless LANsGet examples, steps, and strategies for implementing a WLAN using 802.11bPerform a site survey to discover the best, most cost-effective way to implement your WLANGet the scoop on choosing the right vendors for access points, gateways, and network cardsFine-tune your wireless technology for effective communicationLearn how to beef up WLAN security with encryption, public key infrastructure, and other technologiesFind out how to interconnect multiple networks using wireless bridges and repeatersDiscover what Bluetooth, HomeRF, HiperLAN II, 802.11a, and 802.11b mean for WLANs in the futureYour Hands-on Guide to the Wireless FutureAuthor Biography: WALTER R. BRUCE III installed his first network in the Pentagon while working for the Judge Advocate General of the USAF. Since then, Bruce has worked in a variety of technological fields. For more than a dozen years he has been consulting and training computer users, and writing andpublishing books about computer technology.RON GILSTER, A+, Network+, Server+, i-Net+, CCNA, is the author of more than a dozen bestselling computer books. He has over 35 years of IT experience-most recently at a large regional wireless communications company.