Deploying Wireless Lans

Here is the network professional's guide to the new standards, products, and broadband options that make wireless networks as fast and reliable as wired ones.

Wireless LANs are on the brink of living up to their promise of mobility, speed, ease of installation, and lower cost of ownership as compared to wired ones. Recent market drivers such as the newly adopted 802.11b standard for improved data rates, new product classes, better pricing, and emerging broadband access markets for home and business have ushered in the era of wireless LANs. And network managers suddenly need to know all about them — what they're good at, how to operate them, and what to buy.

In Deploying Wireless LANs, Gil Held clearly and thoroughly explains how to plan and build wireless LANs capable of supporting mobile devices and applications. Gil, the author of over 20 books, uses a straightforward, jargon-free style — and no background in radio frequency engineering is necessary to understand it all.

Packed with easy-to-understand information, Deploying Wireless LANs:

• Covers 802.11a, Home RF, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi
• Details how to make your 802.11 LAN fully compliant with 802.3 and Bluetooth
• Explains common access points and how they're changing LAN options
• Introduces basic transmission troubleshooting techniques

This is a must-have resource for network managers and integrators, mobile device vendors, access providers and anyone else who wants to ride the upcoming wireless LAN wave.

Now that IEEE standard 802.11b has been approved, wireless LANs have arrived with a vengence. Here is a basic guide that will make the promise of wireless LANs pay off—get mobility, speed, simplicity and lower cost of ownership.

• Network professionals guide to new standards, products, and broadband options that make wireless networks as fast and reliable as wired ones
• No background in RF (radio frequency) engineering needed
• Author widely known in the target reader community