| Benifits Of Wireless Lan |
The popularity of wireless LANs is a testament primarily to their
convenience, cost efficiency, and ease of integration with other networks and
network components. The majority of computers sold to consumers today come
pre-equipped with all necessary wireless LAN technology.
The benefits of wireless LANs include:
- Convenience: The wireless nature of such networks allows users to
access network resources from nearly any convenient location within their
primary networking environment (home or office). With the increasing
saturation of laptop-style computers, this is particularly relevant.
- Mobility: With the emergence of public wireless networks, users
can access the internet even outside their normal work environment. Most
chain coffee shops, for example, offer their customers a wireless connection
to the internet at little or no cost.
- Productivity: Users connected to a wireless network can maintain
a nearly constant affiliation with their desired network as they move from
place to place. For a business, this implies that an employee can
potentially be more productive as his or her work can be accomplished from
any convenient location.
- Deployment: Initial setup of an infrastructure-based wireless
network requires little more than a single access point. Wired networks, on
the other hand, have the additional cost and complexity of actual physical
cables being run to numerous locations (which can even be impossible for
hard-to-reach locations within a building).
- Expandability: Wireless networks can serve a suddenly-increased
number of clients with the existing equipment. In a wired network,
additional clients would require additional wiring.
- Cost: Wireless networking hardware is at worst a modest increase
from wired counterparts. This potentially increased cost is almost always
more than outweighed by the savings in cost and labor associated to running
physical cables.
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