Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies, The

BASIC PRINCIPLES

In wireless technology, data is transmitted over the air. Wireless solutions are ideal platforms for extending the concept of home networking into the area of mobile devices around the home. Consequently wireless technology is portrayed as a new system that complements phone-line and powerline networking solutions. It is likely that wireless technology will not emerge as a home network backbone solution, but will instead serve to interconnect the class of devices that need mobile communications into a subnetwork. These mobility subnetworks will interface with other subnetworks and with the Internet by connecting to the home network backbone. Wireless home networks transmit and receive data over the air, minimizing the need for ...