Wireless Network Administration A Beginner's Guide (Network Pro Library)
Wale Soyinka
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0071639217
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Learn the essentials of wireless networking
Configure, manage, and secure wireless networks using the step-by-step details in this practical resource. Wireless Network Administration: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to work with the latest wireless networking standards, including the 802.11x family, on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. The book covers wireless network planning, design, hardware, services, protocols, device configuration, security, troubleshooting, and more. This hands-on guide will get you started administering wireless networks in no time.
- Get details on regulatory and technical organizations
- Learn about different wireless standards and the basics of RF technologies
- Understand and determine client-side hardware requirements, including chipsets and various wireless interfaces
- Select infrastructure-side wireless hardware, such as antennas, wireless access points (WAPs), residential gateways, switches/controllers, routers, and bridges
- Learn about WLANs, WWANs, WMANs, and WPANs
- Work with standard wireless network protocols--TCP/IP (IPv4 and IPv6)
- Understand DNS, DHCP, and other supporting infrastructure services
- Secure wireless networks using cryptography
- Configure infrastructure devices, including a wireless access point device and wireless network switches and controllers
- Configure and manage wireless Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux clients
- Plan, design, survey, deploy, and troubleshoot your wireless network
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To the wired LAN. A wireless access point (WAP) is a good example of a STA that operates in this mode. Distribution System The distribution system (DS) is an important part of any network and serves as a “glue” for interconnecting similar or dissimilar networks together. The fabric of the DS can be based on any of the common wired technologies such as Ethernet. It can also be entirely wireless using regular wireless technologies such as those based on IEEE 802.11. In wireless networks, the DS.
Communications—air or space. The rules and guidelines are specified at different layers of the OSI model. MAC is a sublayer of the OSI’s Data Link layer, or layer 2. The MAC sublayer is basically responsible for providing addressing and medium access control mechanisms that make it possible for several nodes to communicate in a network. The MAC functions are used to control and manage access to the transmission medium in a communications system. Chapter 6: WLAN Controlling the access of.
Personal area networks (WPANs). Which method is best is determined by the specific application or scenario. The influence of wireless standards is again apparent in the different wireless networking technologies, and some of these standards are examined in greater detail as popular technologies such as WLAN (IEEE 802.11), WWAN (GSM, LTE, UMTS), WMAN (WiMAX), and WPAN (Bluetooth, ZigBee) are discussed. Introduction Part IV: Protocols, Services, and Security in Wireless Networks Part IV covers.
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Citizenry’s best interests over that of the commercial entities. But this intention is also subject to change as the telecommunications needs and landscape changes. 5 6 Wireless Network Administration: A Beginner’s Guide Regulatory Body Country Comisión Nacional De Comunicaciones (CNC) Argentina Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Australia Telecom Regulatory Board (TRB) Afghanistan Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Canada.