Why Wireless?
A number of technology trends have been creating an environment in which wireless LAN (WLAN) technology can thrive. WLAN technology did not simply appear out of nowhere…the groundwork to prepare people for mobile computing has been underway for some time. Just as the Internet was able to explode because 1) PCs were abundant, 2) most PCs were connected by LANs, and 3) on the PC, the only thing required to become an Internet node was to install and configure the correct software (in particular, a TCP/IP stack and applications that could use it, such as a web browser). Had PCs not been commonplace, or had LANs not already been deployed, the Internet would not have been able to reach nearly as many people so quickly.
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