Wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) have been around for years, but how can state and local governments manage wireless networks efficiently and effectively from an enterprise perspective? Assuming ...

META Trend: The campus/LAN will become increasingly application aware (2003/04), as products incorporate expanded services such as quality of service, security, and user-based policy. By YE02, 75% of ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

Corporations often need more wide area network (WAN) bandwidth but are deterred by its high cost and slow speed. Pricing for these lines runs from hundreds to thousands of dollars per month, and ...

A federal agency is readying a report that will recommend against the U.S. government using wireless LANs — except when applying a long, detailed list of security controls. Even though wireless LANs ...

With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

It all starts on the walls and ceilings. That’s where you mount your wireless access points, running an Ethernet cable back to your local area network (LAN). Then you just cart in some notebooks with ...

As the airline industry scrambles to meet a Jan. 18 deadline to screen every checked bag for explosives, security experts, analysts and government officials are raising serious concerns about the ...

Everyone from network giants such as Cisco to venture-funded start-ups still in hiding are spending heavily in an effort to grab a big or bigger slice of what Gartner says will be a $2.8 billion ...

College students have led the charge in ditching wired LANs for wireless ones. Now businesses are following suit as 802.11n products emerge. For years, this was one of those non-arguments. Who in ...

Why wireless LANs? Ask anyone who manages networks for an evolving organization. By eliminating LAN wiring, wireless LANs reduce the cost of space planning and preparation, “moves, adds, and changes,” ...

Cellular carriers and conventional telephone companies have latched on to public access wireless LANs as a cheap way of offering high-speed mobile data services to customers. VoiceStream Wireless Corp ...