Wireless LANs lag on security compared with wired networks, the National Institute of Standards and Technology advises, in a new Guide. "Unfortunately, WLANs are typically less secure than their wired ...

IEEE 802.11 working group manages the standards for wireless local area networks (LANs). The earliest 802.11 standards are from the 1990s, when they group was working on the Wireless LAN Medium Access ...

Mesh networks allow deployment of large-scale wireless nets without having to physically link every access point back to the wired network. Funny thing about wireless networks, they demand a heck of a ...

After two years of volatility driven largely by the drawdown of backlogged product orders stemming from the Covid-era global supply chain crisis, the enterprise worldwide wireless local area network ...

In the modern office environment, each worker is equipped with a personal computer with its own processor and multiple disk drives. The computer may be free-standing (very much the exception these ...

The R:Com System provides a wireless connection between office PCs and Thermo King Smart Reefers or reefer data loggers. Using spread spectrum communications with a 200-yd. range, the wireless local ...

Talking about a LAN -- a local area network -- and the Internet is a discussion about two different animals, with the Internet being much bigger than a LAN. Not only does size differentiate a LAN from ...

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.

Until recently, it's been difficult to use the words "secure" and "wireless" in the same sentence. Recent developments mean that's no longer the case. We look at six different options. November 2003 ...