TechRepublic Resources
- Intel Case Study: NETGEAR ProSafe access points
- Developing products for the SMB segment is always a challenge. By leveraging proven components and third-party development expertise, NETGEAR hoped to deliver a feature-rich WLAN product line that met the cost and usability requirements for the SMB segment. NETGEAR needed a development environment that made it possible to easily incorporate...
- Tags: NetGear, Intel Corp., Access Point, Home Networking, Smb/Sme, Networking, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- Retailer's Wireless Growth Requires Contention Solution
- When Pacific Sunwear moved to new offices in Anaheim, Calif., in 2001 because of continued company growth, the company decided to implement wireless LANs in both the 180,000-square-foot corporate offices and in the adjoining 360,000-square-foot distribution center. The retailer's vice president of information services went with what were then state-of-the-art...
- Tags: Distribution Center, WLAN, Meru Networks, Access Point, LANs, Wireless LANs, Retail, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking
- Case studies
- Select Comfort Uses Observer Suite to Perform Site Surveys, Find Rogue access points, and Enforce Corporate Polices for Their Wireless Network
- Creators of the revolutionary Sleep Number bed, the Select Comfort Corporation are the nation's leading bed retailer. When the organization desired to implement an 802.11 wireless network, they needed a solution capable of effectively and efficiently monitoring WLANs, including the ability to perform a Wireless Site Survey, monitor for rogue...
- Tags: Network, Monitoring, Survey, Wireless Network, Access Point, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking
- Case studies
- Wireless LAN Event Detects and Locates Rogue access points With Cirond AirPatrol Mobile
- The organizers of the Wireless LAN Event at the London, United Kingdom based Olympia Exhibition facility were in danger of becoming victims of their own success. After the successful launch of the exhibition in the British capital in 2003, organizers began planning the 2004 show. By early 2004, it became...
- Tags: WLAN, Access Point, Wireless LAN Event, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- Case studies
- Cell Breathing Techniques for Load Balancing in Wireless LANs
- Maximizing the network throughput while providing fairness is one of the key challenges in Wireless LANs (WLANs). This goal is typically achieved when the load of the Access Points (APs) is balanced. However, recent studies on operational WLANs have shown that AP load is often substantially uneven. To alleviate such...
- Tags: Technique, Load Balancing, WLAN, Cell, Access Point, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers
- BOOST: A BOOtSTrapping Protocol for 802.11-Based Self-Organizing Hierarchical Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
- An important aspect of the deployment of wireless LANs lies in careful planning of the locations and the channel assignments of the Access Points (APs). The APs need to be placed optimally to provide maximum coverage and minimize interference with other APs. Also, in the case of ad-hoc networks that...
- Tags: IEEE 802.11, Network, New Jersey, System Performance, Access Point, Wireless, Networking
- White papers
- A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Wireless access point Selection by Mobile Users
- A user located in a congested area of a wireless LAN may benefit by moving to a less-crowded area and using a less-loaded access point. This idea has gained attention from researchers in recent literature. However, its effectiveness and stability are questionable. Each user selects the access point that offers...
- Tags: Selection, Mobile, Access Point, Wireless
- White papers
- South Africa's Coffee Houses Set to Go Wireless in Seattle
- Originated in the USA, the international Seattle Coffee Company organisation was taken over by Starbucks in 2003. Retaining the original brand name, Seattle Coffee Company now has 23 outlets. Seattle Coffee Company needed reliable hardware so that it could deploy, and then not have to worry the wireless network. Its...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Access Point, Wireless, Wi-Fi
- Case studies
- Scalable and Robust WLAN Connectivity Using access point Array
- With the enormous economies of scale of Wireless LAN (WLAN) hardware, the price of commodity WLAN access points has dropped to the level that is even cheaper than some WLAN adapters. This paper proposes to put together an array of off-the-shelf access points, each operating at a different radio frequency,...
- Tags: WLAN, Access Point, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking
- White papers
- Transparent Location Fingerprinting for Wireless Services
- This paper discusses experiments to determine the user's position in a wireless networked environment without the need of additional infrastructures or of particular network configuration. Preliminary tests allow one to detect position on a map with an average uncertainty of two meters when using information gathered from three IEEE802.11b access...
- Tags: University Of Trento, Performance, Wireless Service, Access Point, Wireless, Wi-Fi
- White papers
- MiFi: A Framework for Fairness and QoS Assurance in Current IEEE 802.11 Networks With Multiple access points
- This paper presents a framework for providing fair service and supporting QoS requirements in IEEE 802.11 networks with multiple access-points (APs). These issues becomes critical as IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN are widely deployed in nationwide networks, linking tens of thousands of "hot-spots" for providing both real-time (voice) and non real-time...
- Tags: IEEE 802.11, QoS, Access Point, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers
- Retooling WLAN access points With Intel IXP422 Network Processor Improves Performance, Lowers Costs, Speeds Time to Market
- Since 1999, RadioFrame Networks has focused on enhancing the wireless experience for enterprise users by making wireless communications technology work better indoors. With their unique converged mobile cellular services and wireless data solution, RadioFrame developers sought to deliver exceptional coverage, capacity and uninterrupted connections to mobile phones and wireless data...
- Tags: Processor, Performance, WLAN, Intel Corp., Access Point, RadioFrame Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies
- Hotel Golkonda: Business on the Move? Wirelessly!!
- Hotel Golkonda has recently invested in setting up a wireless "Hotspot" inside the Hotel. A full-fledged wireless LAN has been deployed across a total of 5 floors and expected to be covered the additional 2 floors with 6 more Access Points shortly. A total of 11 Cisco Aironet 1100 series...
- Tags: Floor, Cisco Systems Inc., Access Point, Hotel Golkonda, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies
- Testing Cisco's enterprise-class 802.11n access point
- I hope the title is not too misleading as I didn't run the tests personally. I'm just excited to learn that someone has finally evaluated an enterprise-class 802.11n access point. The InformationWeek article "First Look: Cisco's 11n AP" presents a high-level view of the testing done by Syracuse University Real-World...
- Tags: Article, IEEE 802.11n, Evaluation, Cisco Systems Inc., Access Point, 802.11n Access Point, RF Propagation, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Time Capsule: Unboxing and Setup Assistant
- Screen shots of the Setup Assistant that comes with Apple's new Time Capsule 1TB NAS. by Jason O'Grady
- Tags: screenshots, Apple, Time Capsule, Unboxing, NAS, hard drive, AEBS, Airport, Access Point, WiFi, 802.11, Wireless
- Image galleries 2008-03-03
- How Cisco Deployed Wireless access points Worldwide
- In 2000, Cisco IT began developing a consistent and supported wireless networking architecture. This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of wireless LANs within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Access Point, Cisco IT, Wireless
- Case studies 2007-12-17
- Cisco 1510 AP says AP IP Address is disabled
- I'm currently setting up a wirless lan with a Cisco 4402 Wireless Lan Controller and 3 cisco 1510 Access points. Everything works fine the access points discover each other and I can get from one end to the other. It's very basic no DHCP servers static IP's layer2 mode. A...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, eraser3498@..., IP address, access point, AP IP address, Cisco Systems Inc., IP, Associated Press, seesion
- Discussion threads 2007-11-22
- How do you make multiple wireless routers look like one?
- I'm working as the network administrator for a high school and we have 9 wireless routers around the school for the staff laptops. I'd like to make them all one Wireless access point by somehow joining them all and making them the same SSID.At the moment, they all have...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, Wi-Fi, NETWORKING, link470, router, SSID, wireless, access point, wireless router
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- laptop as wireless access point
- I have a laptop which connects to the internet using my mobile phone (3G) as a modem. How can I use my laptop to share my internet connection, using my laptop's wireless LAN, with other wireless devices? I use vista as my OS.
- Tags: Notebooks, INTERNET, Wi-Fi, irwin.torres@..., laptop computer, wireless, access point
- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
- Singular Spectrum Analysis of Traffic Workload in a Large-Scale Wireless LAN
- Network traffic load in an IEEE802.11 infrastructure arises from the superposition of traffic accessed by wireless clients associated with Access Points (APs). An accurate characterization of these data can be beneficial in modelling network traffic and addressing a variety of problems including cover-age planning, resource reservation and network monitoring for...
- Tags: LAN, Network, Traffic, WLAN, Association For Computing Machinery, Spectrum, Analysis, Access Point, Wireless, Wi-Fi
- White papers 2007-10-26
