Monday, October 23, 2006

Wireless Technology

Technology Overview

Keep Users Connected with Wireless LANs

The following components work together to create a unified wireless network:

Organizations worldwide are deploying wireless networks to increase productivity, enhance collaboration, and improve processes. Instant interaction, text paging, voice services, and network access while traveling are transforming the business environment.

  • Client Devices: These connect desktop and mobile devices to the wireless LAN in 802.11a-, 802.11b-, or 802.11g-compliant networks. Most of today’s laptops are wireless-enabled, and many specialized wireless client devices are now available.
  • Access Points: These help connect wireless devices to networks, providing ubiquitous network access for many wireless environments.
  • Network Unification: This is critical for network control, scalability, security, and reliability. Integration into existing networks enables systemwide functions including security policies, intrusion prevention, and RF management.
  • Network Management: As wireless networks grow in scale and complexity, management becomes more critical, requiring central design, control, and monitoring.
  • Mobility Services: A comprehensive wireless network provides built-in support for leading-edge applications such as wireless voice over IP, location services, advanced security, and other emerging technologies.

Business Benefits

Enhance Productivity, Collaboration, and Responsiveness

With increasing dependence on networks and the Internet as fundamental business tools and the desire to increase employee productivity, organizations across industries are using wireless LAN (WLAN) technology to enhance their existing networks. Wireless offers anywhere, anytime network connectivity, improving employee flexibility and mobility, and workplace utility.

Wireless networks enable real-time access to critical applications and network resources across campuses, branch offices, and remote locations. And as public access to wireless services expands, organizations increasingly depend on the mobility of their employees while consumers expect the ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere.With this increased demand, service providers are offering wireless services that allow their customers to use multiple devices to receive messages and phone calls, and access network and Internet-based information.

Organizations in a wide range of industries can benefit from providing wireless connectivity:

Education : Wireless networks allow schools at all levels to provide a wide range of applications across their facilities without expensive rewiring, giving students and staff access to benefits, such as e-learning, voice communications, and high-bandwidth Internet access, to enhance learning, improve administration, and enhance research efforts.

Financial Service : Financial services firms can provide employees with mobility, giving them instant access to industry trends, customer data, and financial information, helping firms dramatically improve customer service and more quickly deliver products and services.

Government : Public-safety and law-enforcement agencies can have uninterrupted access to crucial information, helping them respond more quickly and efficiently to a crisis or day-to-day operations.

Healthcare : Caregivers can access real-time patient information or medical research from the patient bedside to make more accurate decisions more quickly and continue providing quality healthcare.

Manufacturing : Wireless access to the networked supply-chain is helping manufacturers allow employees to share real-time data on the factory floor and support timely assembly.

Retail : Wireless networks help retailers improve store staff flexibility and efficiency, check out customers faster, and give customers access to relevant promotions, product information, and online ordering.

Transportation : Airlines, railroads, commercial trucking firms, and other businesses are using wireless networks to make their workforces more mobile. Wireless LANs improve efficiency of cargo handling, warehousing, and shipping through automation, which improves customer service and enhances security.

Posted by gede sunyartika at Monday, October 23, 2006 0 comments
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