User's Manual

Appendix
BreezeNET PRO.11 Series 8-6 User’s Guide
8.3. Wireless LAN Concepts
Wireless LAN technology is becoming increasingly popular for a wide
variety of applications. After evaluating the technology, users are convinced
of its reliability, more than satisfied with its performance, and are ready to
use it for large-scale and complex wireless networks.
Originally designed for indoor office applications, today’s wireless LANs
can be used for both indoor client-server and peer-to-peer networks as well
as for outdoor point-to-point and point-to-multipoint remote bridging
applications.
Wireless LANs are designed to be modular and very flexible. They can also
be optimized for different environments. For example, point-to-point
outdoor links are less susceptible to interference and can have higher
performance if designers increase the “dwell time” and disable the “collision
avoidance” and “fragmentation” mechanisms described later in this section.
Topology
Wired LAN Topology
Traditional LANs (Local Area Networks) link PCs and other computers to
one another and to file servers, printers and other network equipment using
cables or optic fibers as the transmission medium.
Figure 9.1: Wired LAN Topology