WIRELESS SOLUTIONS

Valuant Technologies can design a Wireless Solution for your company that will give you access to files stored on a network while moving around the office or even to a network in another building!

Our solutions are designed with point-to-point and point-multi-point connections that allow users in different locations the opportunity to access the Internet, share files, and access network resources without wires. If you are considering a building-to-building or LAN-to-LAN wireless network Valuant can provide a solution that meets your needs.

Wireless solutions will help you with adding and moving computer users by providing immediate connectivity without having to install wiring. Wireless is also ideal for installing networks in older or historic buildings as a cost-effective network infrastructure solution.

Some uses of wireless solutions include:
• In a conference room wireless solutions provide fast real-time access to network files and Internet access.
• Sales people traveling to multiple business locations enjoy convenient, reliable and unified access to the corporate network.
• Hospitals or clinics that require mobility of workstations and secured real-time access to patient data and medical systems.
• School room or training lab where workstations are moved frequently.
• Tradeshow for connecting computers together.

Our wireless solutions can also be taken on the road so you can always have instant Internet access in hotels, airports, conference centers and other areas while you travel.

Wireless Networking Glossary

Access Point
A device that transports data between a wireless network and a wired network (infrastructure).

IEEE 802.X
A set of specifications for Local Area Networks (LAN) from The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Most wired networks conform to 802.3, the specification for CSMA/CD based Ethernet networks. The 802.11 committee completed a standard for 1 and 2 Mbps wireless LANs in 1997 that has a single MAC layer for the following physical-layer technologies: Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum, and Infrared. IEEE 802.11 HR, an 11 Mbps version of the standard is expected to be completed by the end of 1999.

Independent network
A network that provides (usually temporarily) peer-to-peer connectivity without relying on a complete network infrastructure.

Infrastructure network
A wireless network centered about an access point. In this environment, the access point not only provides communication with the wired network but also mediates wireless network traffic in the immediate neighborhood.

Microcell
A bounded physical space in which a number of wireless devices can communicate. Because it is possible to have overlapping cells as well as isolated cells, the boundaries of the cell are established by some rule or convention.

Multipath
The signal variation caused when radio signals take multiple paths from transmitter to receiver. Radio Frequency (RF) Terms: GHz, MHz, Hz The international unit for measuring frequency is Hertz (Hz), which is equivalent to the older unit of cycles per second. One Mega-Hertz (MHz) is one million Hertz. One Giga-Hertz (GHz) is one billion Hertz. For reference: the standard US electrical power frequency is 60 Hz, the AM broadcast radio frequency band is 0.55 -1.6 MHz, the FM broadcast radio frequency band is 88-108 MHz, and microwave ovens typically operate at 2.45 GHz.

Roaming
Movement of a wireless node between two microcells. Roaming usually occurs in infrastructure networks built around multiple access points.

Wireless Node
A user computer with a wireless network interface card (adapter).