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WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

Specialty Definition: WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

DomainDefinition

Computing

Wireless local area network (WLAN /W-lan/, or "LAWN" /lorn/, sometimes "WiLAN" /wi-lan/) A communication system that transmits and receives data using modulated electromagnetic waves, implemented as an extension to, or as an alternative for, a wired LAN. WLANs are typically found within a small client node-dense locale (e.g. a campus or office building), or anywhere a traditional network cannot be deployed for logistical reasons. Benefits include user mobility in the coverage area, speed and simplicity of physical setup, and scalability. Being a military spin-off, WLANs also provide security features such as encryption, frequency hopping, and firewalls. Some of these are intrinsic to the protocol, making WLANs at least as secure as wired networks, and usually more so. The drawbacks are high initial cost (mostly hardware), limited range, possibility of mutual interference, amd the need to security-enable clients. The established protocols are covered by IEEE 802.11 (http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/). Recent developments include the Bluetooth project and other WPAN, or Personal Area Network initiatives, accessible through IEEE 802.15 working group (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/). Wireless Lan Association (http://www.wlana.com/). Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.dcom.lans.misc, news:comp.std.wireless. (2001-07-14). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Crosswords: WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

Specialty definitions using "WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK": WiLAN, WLAN. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Global Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Market [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wireless local area network

51
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Alternative Orthography: WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 49 52 45 4C 45 53 53      4C 4F 43 41 4C      41 52 45 41      4E 45 54 57 4F 52 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01001001 01010010 01000101 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01001100 01001111 01000011 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000001 01010010 01000101 01000001 00100000 01001110 01000101 01010100 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 0052 0045 004C 0045 0053 0053      004C 004F 0043 0041 004C      0041 0052 0045 0041      004E 0045 0054 0057 004F 0052 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

574352394639535324649373546235523935248395457495245

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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