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  • Deploying 802.11n for improved wireless LAN performance

    This series examines how deploying 802.11n can improve your enterprise’s wireless LAN performance enabling mobility services that make workforces informed and productive. With 802.11n you can extend your network to deliver multimedia over wireless ma...  Tutorial

  • 802.11n WLAN design best practices

    Discover best practices for designing and deploying an 802.11n wireless LAN, from RF design and band/channel selection to access point placement for coverage and capacity. After reading this section, you will understand where to start when adding 802...  Tutorial

  • 802.11n migration: Supporting legacy devices

    Lisa Phifer explains how your 802.11n migration provides support for legacy client devices that are already used for best-effort data applications like Internet access and email, identifying best practices for migration. After reading this section, y...  Tutorial

  • Delivering video over your 802.11n wireless LAN

    Learn about delivering video over your 802.11n wireless LAN. Discover the features that affect video streaming, and identify benefits and limitations related to techniques like multicast and airtime fairness that must be considered in order to delive...  Tutorial

  • Optimizing 802.11n for voice over wireless LAN

    Understand the impacts that 802.11n can have on voice applications and discover techniques to deliver toll-quality voice over wireless LAN, including WMM prioritization, call admission and fast roaming. You’ll gain insight into why a well-designed da...  Tutorial

  • Doing more with spectrum analysis: Cisco CleanAir

    Wireless engineers have had spectrum analysis in their toolboxes for a long time, but the CleanAir solution from Cisco integrates the tool directly into the WLAN infrastructure. Network administrators who deploy this enhanced level of spectrum intell...  TechWatch

  • Interop wireless: Jury's out on TV white space, all-wireless enterprise

    At Interop New York, vendors will be touting new wireless LAN architecture and the introduction of TV white space spectrum to enable the all-wireless enterprise. But Interop wireless conference track experts don't agree on whether the all-wireless en...  Slideshow

  • Interop enterprise mobility: You are your mobile user's keeper

    During the Interop New York enterprise mobility conference track, users will be seeking enterprise mobility security and management strategies to handle the plethora of personal mobile devices on their enterprise networks.  Slideshow

  • Interop New York: Enterprise mobility and WLAN architecture grow up

    Wireless LAN architecture changes and enterprise mobility will be hot topics at Interop New York. Users will learn how to handle the security and management issues surrounding personal mobile devices in the enterprise, as well as how to prepare for n...  Q&A

  • How to configure wireless LAN security

    Learn how to configure wireless LAN security, including choosing the right security standard and setting up a Robust Security Network. In this PrepLogic training video, you'll learn Cisco Aironet 1200 configuration for security, as well as troublesho...  Videos

  • See More: Essential Knowledge on Wireless LAN Implementation

  • patch antenna

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  • wireless mesh network (WMN)

    A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a mesh network created through the connection of wireless access points installed at each network user's locale.  Definition

  • beamforming

    Beamforming is a type of RF (radio frequency) management in which an access point uses multiple antennas to send out the same signal.  Definition

  • cognitive radio (CR)

    Cognitive radio (CR) is a form of wireless communication in which a transceiver can intelligently detect which communication channels are in use and which are not, and instantly move into vacant channels while avoiding occupied ones... (Continued)  Definition

  • radio frequency (RF, rf, orr.f.)

    Radio frequency (abbreviated RF, rf, orr.f.) is a term that refers to alternating current (AC) havingcharacteristics such that, if the current is input to an antenna, an electromagnetic (EM) field is generated suitable for wireless broadcastingand/or...  Definition

  • direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) or direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA)

    Direct sequence spread spectrum, also known as direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA), is one of two approaches to spread spectrum modulation for digital signal transmission over the airwaves.  Definition

  • phase-locked loop (PLL)

    A phase-locked loop (PLL) is an electronic circuit with a voltage- or current-driven oscillator that is constantly adjusted to match in phase (and thus lock on) the frequency of an input signal.  Definition

  • frequency-hopping spread spectrum

    Frequency hopping is one of two basic modulation techniques used in spread spectrum signal transmission.  Definition

  • Asynchronous Pulsed Radiated Incident Light

    Asynchronous Pulsed Radiated Incident Light is a multi-duplicitous communication protocol (MDCP) used to configure wireless local area networks (WLANs) on the fly.  Definition

  • 802.11a

    802.11a is one of several specifications in the 802.11 family applicable to wireless local area networks (wireless LANs or WLANs).  Definition

  • All-wireless enterprise networks

    Learn about all-wireless enterprise networks, including how they look and common obstacles, in this video.  Video

  • TV white space spectrum and the enterprise network

    With newly available TV white space spectrum in play, what does this mean for enterprise networks? In this video, learn about how the white space frequencies will affect wireless access, and how the opening of this white space spectrum should affect ...  Video

  • How to approach wireless LAN architectures

    A poorly planned wireless LAN architecture can spell disaster for a wireless network. In this video, expert Lisa Phifer gives tips and advice on WLAN architectures, including a controller-centric approach and a decentralized/controller-less/smart AP ...  Video

  • Deploying high performance enterprise wireless LANs, screencast video

    Learn how to deploy and build a high performance enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) with emerging technology improvements like 802.11n in order to boost network performance speeds.  Video

  • Wireless LAN vulnerabilities

    Learn about common wireless LAN vulnerabilities and how a few best practices can change wireless LAN issues from a problem into a helpful tool for any enterprise in this 10-minute podcast with Burton Group analyst Paul DeBeasi.  Podcast

  • Wireless LAN management strategies

    Implementing a WLAN is straightforward, but making sure it runs optimally can be challenging. Luckily, networking professionals can control and maintain their wireless networks by using well-known methodologies based on the OSI model. Here we outline...  Audiocast

About Wireless LAN Implementation

Learn how to set up a wireless local area network (WLAN) and what equipment is needed, in the implementation section of our WLAN topics. Wireless LAN products and devices -- such as wireless access points (WAPs), routers, switches, antennas and controllers -- are evaluated for specific network environments. Explanations of Wi-Fi installation, configuration and design planning can help networking pros obtain the best signal coverage and reduce RF interference for their business WLANs.