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The first article in this series discussed types of wireless Access Points (APs) and how AP design affects network function and cost. This article examines vendor design approaches to authentication, VLANs, and network installation issues. These issues impact how your users connect to the network, their access to network resources and the overall cost of adding WLANs to your network. Authentication WLAN users must enter authentication credentials, usually a username and password to gain access to the WLAN. Authentication facilities are usually designed so that Continue reading →

By Matt Kelly

Wi-Fi With a Coat and Tie by Quentin Hardy

by David Jacobs

By Paul Korzeniowski

by Dan Jones, Site Editor

by Jeff Miller

By Russell Shaw

A gathering of Wi-Fi vendors always means a lot to take in, but only a handful of companies continue to truly innovate and bring something new to the table. That handful, narrowed down from an exhaustive list of potential winners, is what makes up the best on the show floor at this week’s Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo. To be eligible for the awards, the contending products and services had to be on display in the show’s exhibit hall this week, and the company had Continue reading →

Everyone knows QoS is a growing concern for today's multimedia networks--but what about wireless? With its shared- media architecture and specialized protocols for mobility, the wireless LAN presents unique challenges with QoS. We examine proprietary and standards-based approaches to solving this problem