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What is Wireless Local Area Networking

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Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
A wireless data network that is used to transmit data packets between network communications users locally without wired connections to or between the computers. Known commonly as WLAN.
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Modelling Wireless Local Area Networking in Higher Education Institutes
Ossi Väänänen (Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch074
Abstract
This article is partly based on the research being done by Turku University of Applied Sciences in Turku, Finland. The research was started in spring 2006 and is backed by the Ministry of Education in Finland. The aim of the research is to do the basic information collation of the current implementations and the use of wireless local area networking in Finnish universities of applied sciences (former polytechnics). Based on certain models and best practices for WLAN (wireless local area networking), networking is created.
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