Chapter 5. Selecting Antenna Systems
Your selection of the proper antenna system is the biggest factor in the success of your wireless network. This chapter helps you select the most effective antenna system for your wireless wide-area network (WAN). This chapter discusses the following topics:
How antennas focus power
Basic antenna types
Antenna polarization and how to use it
Reasons to combine antennas and how to combine them
Reasons to isolate antennas and how to isolate them
In a wired Ethernet, the Ethernet cable directs the signal. Ethernet packets can go only where the Ethernet cable goes. In a broadband wireless WAN, the antenna directs the signal. Wireless packets can only go where the antenna system radiates them.
Your antenna system must ...
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