... are confused. Basically, wireless networks use radio signals to accomplish what copper cable or fibber optic accomplishes in a wired network. The picture below is of a basic wireless LAN. It includes desktop PCs and Laptops as well as a wired network as the original Internet source. The goal of a wireless LAN is to provide a link to a wired network. This wireless link can be ... receive from multiple sources or "end users". Each end user is equipped with a wireless adapter. These wireless adapters can be PC cards for laptops or ISA or PCI cards for desktop machines. There are many diffe...

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... each other at one time, but on a much smaller scale thanr and be a standard in communication was the earlier development of the TCP/IP programs. This technology matured quietly, until desktop workstations became available around 1983 (Cerf, et al., 1998). Most of these workstations came with Berkeley UNIX, which included IP networking software. This created a new demand: rather than connecting to ... ...

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... and is very efficient. They usually deserved for connections between devices in larger networks, though in some very demanding environments, highly fault resistant fibre-optic cable is used to connect desktop workstations to the network and to link adjacent buildings. Fibre- optic is the most reliable wiring but also the most expensive. 4. Network operating system software; such as Microsoft Windows 95 ... ...

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... provide 100 Mbps fault-tolerant transmission rates. It is a method of connecting LANs with high-speed ring networks. FDDI is a high-speed general purpose network for connecting large computers, workstations, desktop computers, and other computing equipment. The FDDI network can be used as a high-speed local network to interconnect large mainframe computers within a small area. Harris 5 The benefit of a FDDI ring ... ...

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... , the size of information transmitted was small because at the time there were virtually no applications developed for computers. There was no streaming audio or video, no collaborative computing, no desktop publishing, no graphical user interface, and no Internet, as we know it today. First generation optical networks in place at the time were not designed for the bandwidth of today ... ...

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... of 69, there were four nodes on the network, which was called ARPANET, after its Pentagon sponsor. The nodes of the network were high-speed supercomputers. (supercomputers at the time, desktop machines now) Thanks to APRANET scientists and researchers could share one another's computer facilities over long-distances. By the second year of its operation however, APRANET's users had warped the ... ...

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