Chapter 7. Wireless WANs: Networks for Worldwide Connections
What You Will Learn
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
Recognize specific wireless WAN applications
Wireless WANs satisfy needs for networking over vast distances, such as countries and continents. In most cases, wireless WANs offer connections while away from the office, home, and the indoor public wireless LANs. Wireless WANs do provide coverage inside buildings, but performance in these areas is often much less than when operating outside.
The advantage of wireless WANs is wide coverage and economies-of-scale that result in low prices for subscribers. The disadvantage is that the ...
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