
Chapter 4
802.3 Ethernet cable that connected most of the world’s enterprise users to the Internet. The
concept of supporting QoS-intensive features such as voice was not one of the priorities of
the design. Although since the year 2000, it has become evident that 802.11 WLANs will be
used for applications demanding QoS. Similarly, in the initial design, relatively little atten-
tion was paid to the security-related areas of authentication and encryption. It is now taken
as a given that securing the first hop of 802.11 connections is indeed a prerequisite for wide-
spread enterprise deployment of the technology. In parallel with these changes, the