Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

Wireless Networking

With the rapid growth of wireless networking, users can access data from anywhere in the world, using a wide range of devices. Wireless networks offer additional benefits by reducing or eliminating the high cost of laying expensive fiber and cabling and by providing backup functionality for wired networks. Windows XP Professional provides extensive support for wireless networking technology so that businesses can extend the capabilities of their enterprise networks to wireless devices.

The primary wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) solution is IEEE 802.11, which is the WLAN standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The IEEE 802.11b specification, recently created and adopted, adds to ...