Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION TO NETWORKING
Broadband wireless networks are one more step toward the Internet's ultimate destiny of interconnecting everything in the known universe.
A wireless network combines two kinds of communication technology: data networks that make it possible to share information among two or more computers, and radio (or wireless) communication that uses electromagnetic radiation to move information from one place to another.
The earliest Wi-Fi systems provided a convenient way to connect a laptop computer to an office network and to connect computers to a home network without stringing cables between rooms. Today, Wi-Fi and other ...
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