About WaveLAN
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WaveLAN/ISA User’s Guide
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Getting Started
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About WaveLAN
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WaveLAN provides cable-free departmental local area
networking for personal computers. This gives you the
flexibility to relocate people and equipment, or to add
more stations to your network, without the planning
effort and cost of re-cabling.
Using radio communications technology, WaveLAN is
ideally suited to workgroup or departmental networks,
to extending wired networks into difficult to wire areas,
or to setting up temporary ad-hoc networks in special
situations.
Typical Network
Configurations
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The WaveLAN Network Interface Card (NIC) and driver
software have been developed for use with common
industry-standard networking systems such as Novell
NetWare, LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroups.
Typical configurations include:
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Standalone WaveLAN network including one or
more servers.
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Physically separated WaveLAN networks (for
example: on different floors of the same building)
connected via a wired backbone.
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Wired network with WavePOINT access point,
allowing wireless connection into the wired network
from one or more WaveLAN stations (see Figure 1-1
on page 1-2).
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A wireless bridge connecting two wired LANs
(overcoming physical obstacles to a wired
connection).
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