What’s the best way to add wireless LANs to your network?

What’s the best way to add wireless LANs to your network?

Keerti Melkote insists that wireless LANs are a completely different animal from wired LANs – and any attempt to add wireless as simply a feature of a wired LAN is opening a security and management Pandora’s box. By contrast, Vipin Jain says the systems need to be united – also for security and management purposes. Who’s right? These two experts debate the topic in this week’s Face-off.

Melkote

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Jain

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Making wireless LANs automatic

Of course, the biggest problems with wireless LAN technology are the number of options and the amount of planning and tuning involved, which is all “totally stupid and counterproductive,” according to one observer. Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix this week tells how a start-up hopes to change that.

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The dawning of the Age of Wireless

Meanwhile, industry analyst Frank Dzubeck is already labeling the 21st Century as “The Wireless Century.” He looks at the various technologies at the foundation of this widespread change.

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Time to raise IT awareness

In business, there is no excuse for folks who use computers every day to be ignorant about their functions. Today Mark Gibbs in his Backspin column calls for companies to get all employees to learn more about how to use IT.

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