Wireless Network

Six security tips for securing your Wi-Fi Access Point/Router at Home/SOHO

This post gives six important security tips you need to follow to secure your Wireless (Wi-Fi) connection from being misused by neighbors / intruders. Every wireless access point comes with a lot of settings, and you need to change some of them for secure internet access on wireless. »

Why is a Controller required in a wireless network

What can you do with a controller based centralized wireless networks of today? Read on to find out the features and functionality provided by controller based wireless (Wi-Fi) networks for medium and large institutions/ enterprises. »

Using Directional and Omni-Directional Antennas in Wireless Networks

This post gives an introduction to the two types of Antennas used in Wireless Networks - Directional Antennas and Omni-directional Antennas. We also have a look at in-built antennas and external antennas and the options available with Access Points for the same. We discuss the type of coverage provided by either and particular situations... »

Managing multi-vendor wireless access points

This article gives an introduction to the software applications that manage multi-vendor access points, controllers and other Wi-Fi devices on a huge disparate network. We look at the user, device monitoring, visual heat maps offering live coverage of the Wi-Fi network, security features like rogue access point detection etc. that can be uniformly applied... »

Difference between Stand Alone Access points and Controller based Access points

This article discusses the difference between Stand-Alone Access Points (Thick) and Controller based Access Points (Thin) - the basic structural difference, authentication, radio management, security, access control and other management features in both of them. »

Location Tracking using Wi-Fi based RFID Tags

This article gives an introduction to the Wi-Fi based RFID Tags, how the location of assets can be devised by the combination of Enterprise Wi-Fi and RFID technologies, what can be accomplished by such a system, advantages and limitations of Wi-Fi based RFID Location tracking technology. »

Guest Access in Wireless LAN

This article explores the ways in which the guests can be given access to wireless networks, whether they could be authenticated, whether their access can be restricted to certain services in the network and whether usage statistics and logs can be generated for guests. »

Quality of Service in Wireless Networks – WMM and WMM-SA

This article introduces the QoS mechanisms followed by a wireless network like WMM(Wireless Multi-Media) and WMM-SA(Wireless Multi-Media Scheduled Access) which are both standards based and help wireless networks to reliably enable real time and latency sensitive applications like voice and video by prioritizing them and transmitting them ahead of the normal data traffic like... »

Advantages and dis-advantages of having wireless (Wi-Fi) as primary network

Since Wi-Fi has become a very popular standard now for network access at the edge level, this article looks to ponder if an all wireless office is a possibility. We will look at what all can be made wireless and what cannot, what are the advantages and dis-advantages of having wireless as a primary... »

Does having a “No-Wireless” Policy make your organization secure?

How safe is an organization (like a bank) which has prevented the use of Wi-Fi systems in its premisis? That's what we are going to see in this article. We will also see how Wi-Fi infrastructure (Wireless Intrusion Prevention) can be helpful in enforcing the "No Wireless" policy. »