Part VIII. Mobility

Mobility

Wireless World

At this point, you should have enough information to understand how networking works. For the most part, smart IT people can wire together all the networks and connect all the devices to the switches and the routers and the data centers and light it all up and make it go. There’s only one slight problem. We have decided (after most of this connecting stuff took place) that we really don’t like those wires. Hmmm. Back to square one.

This section focuses on wireless networking, which adds a whole new dimension and, as you will see, a whole new set of design considerations and challenges. Because we are back to basics, ...

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