802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals

802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals gives you the background and practical details you need to select, design, install, and run your own WLAN. This book begins with an overview of Ethernet technologies, 802.11 standards, and physical layer technologies, providing you with a frame of reference for the rest of the book. Subsequent chapters address challenges and solutions associated with security, mobility, and QoS. Radio frequency fundamentals are reviewed in detail, as are site-surveying methods. A series of case studies that highlight WLAN design considerations in various business environments helps place all the concepts covered in this book in the context of real-world applications.

Pej Roshan is a technical marketing engineer with the Ethernet Access Group at Cisco Systems. His primary focus is on Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (AVVID) for switched and wireless ethernet.

Jon Leary is a product line manager at Cisco, where he is responsible for defining roadmaps for wireless bridging. Jon has years of experience working in the wireless and digital signal processing fields, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Harvard and an M.S. in signal processing from Stanford.