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 ...

Wireless LANs (WLANs) have hit the mainstream, and like other fast-moving technologies, have done so without much explanation of what they are, how they work or what they can do. These networks rely ...

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 ...

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, ...

Stuart Okin and Ian Hellen at Microsoft UK give their opinion on how different forms of data encryption can protect wireless Lan users and corporate data from unwelcome snoopers After more than a ...

Jim lives on an island off the coast of Florida where virtually nobody is interested in information technology. To compensate for that, Jim frequently goes on the road to meet with vendors and ...

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 ...

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 ...

CNET.com.au’s step-by-step guide to using a wireless router to share an Internet connection and build a wireless network at home. It wasn’t long ago that the average household had just one computer, ...

Anyone who joined an enterprise IT team in the 21st century has always worked in a world where wireless is an option -- and more recently, a necessity. But enterprise wireless hasn't always been ...

Campus local area networks (LANs) come in all shapes and sizes, but let’s keep it simple and say these are enterprise networks with hundreds or thousands of users and LANs in one or more buildings.