Implementing Successful Wireless LANs
Important Considerations in Deploying a Wireless Solution
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About the Book
Successful wireless LAN implementations provide many benefits to enterprises that deploy them to reach mobile workers. This success requires more than understanding of the IEEE 802.11 standard. Implementing Successful Wireless LANs provides a comprehensive approach that is easy to understand. It lays out a wireless project beginning with the business aspects of calculating a return on investment to get started as well as managing and maintaining network availability to mobile workers once the access points have been installed.
The author's front line experience in designing and managing wireless local area networks makes this valuable resource for:
- Understanding radio frequency fundamentals
- Being able to understand differing wireless coverage and usage models for vendors of standards based access points
- Providing a methodology and report template for doing a wireless site survey that can be used as a guideline for third party services
- Providing a best practices recommendation for wireless security
- Defining device management and providing best practices recommendation
- Delivering a return on investment use scenario that encompasses many of the issues needed to get your project approved
- Providing a view of the next step of wireless technology
About the Author
Tim Zimmerman has more than a decade of experience in local area wireless data communications contributing to the international wireless community as an author and speaker. He?s served in marketing, product management and executive capacities at various wireless and advanced technology companies. He has contributed to the industry as part of the IEEE 802.11 working group and as part of the founding team for WLANA (Wireless LAN Alliance) and WLIF (Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum). He has undergraduate degrees in physics and computer science from Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, IA, and a master?s degree in business administration from the University of Iowa. Tim, his wife, Trisha and their two daughters reside in Charlotte, NC.