Check out our interview with Chia-Chee Kuan, VP of Engineering for AirMagnet and pioneer in the development of tools for testing and designing wireless LANs. AirMagnet was one of the first wireless LAN tool makers, and they have a complete set of products today that offers value when performing site surveys, verifying signal coverage, and assessing security. Hear what Chia-Chee has to say about how AirMagnet got started and what they offer now and plan to have in the future.
The performance of a RF site survey requires more than just ensuring that users are able to connect to an access point. Learn what signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to use for defining effective range boundaries.
Wireless LAN Concepts - a video based eLearning course now available free to the registered users. This
is a great course for an introduction to wireless LANs.
There are videos
of Jim Geier discussing concepts of wireless LANs, including
applications, benefits, issues, technologies, standards,
components, and configurations. This eLearning course also includes
several demonstrations on how to setup and configure a
wireless LAN.
Voice over Wireless LAN (also known as VoWLAN or VoFi) is currently one of the hottest topics among CIOs and enterprise technology professionals. This shouldn’t be surprising given that VoFi straddles two of the most successful technology trends of the past several years - the rise of 802.11 based wireless LANs and voice-over-IP (VoIP). However, VoFi isn’t simply riding the coat tails of its forbears. Wireless voice deployments are surging because VoFi is able to resolve real problems more effectively, and at a lower cost, than those options being used today.
On nearly a daily basis, we’re seeing large municipalities, such as Atlanta, Philadelphia and San Francisco, announcing their deployments of city-wide public Wi-Fi networks. These networks cover hundreds of square miles each. It’s also common to see many of the smaller cities, such as my home town, Dayton, Ohio, moving forward with public Wi-Fi service. It appears that soon we’ll have Wi-Fi just about everywhere!
Many protocols and RF concepts support the operation of a wireless LAN, but don’t forget that data frames actually get the job done. Learn how data frames carry information over a Wi-Fi network.
Voice over Wireless LAN (also known as VoWLAN or VoFi) is currently one of the hottest topics among CIOs and enterprise technology professionals. This shouldn’t be surprising given that VoFi straddles two of the most successful technology trends of the past several years - the rise of 802.11 based wireless LANs and voice-over-IP (VoIP). However, VoFi isn’t simply riding the coat tails of its forbears. Wireless voice deployments are surging because VoFi is able to resolve real problems more effectively, and at a lower cost, than those options being used today.
On nearly a daily basis, we’re seeing large municipalities, such as Atlanta, Philadelphia and San Francisco, announcing their deployments of city-wide public Wi-Fi networks. These networks cover hundreds of square miles each. It’s also common to see many of the smaller cities, such as my home town, Dayton, Ohio, moving forward with public Wi-Fi service. It appears that soon we’ll have Wi-Fi just about everywhere!
