Wireless LAN's

- A Practical Guide for Today's IT Professionals
- Comprehensive "End-to-End" Coverage
- Real-World Examples, Strategies, and Solutions
A 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 LANs
- Get examples, steps, and strategies for implementing a WLAN using 802.11b
- Perform a site survey to discover the best, most cost-effective way to implement your WLAN
- Get the scoop on choosing the right vendors for access points, gateways, and network cards
- Fine-tune your wireless technology foreffective communication
- Learn how to beef up WLAN security with encryption, public key infrastructure, and other technologies
- Find out how to interconnect multiple networks using wireless bridges and repeaters
- Discover what Bluetooth, HomeRF, HiperLAN II, 802.11a, and 802.11b mean for WLANs in the future

Your Hands-on Guide to the Wireless Future