Wireless technologies:

Wireless technologies represent a rapidly emerging area of growth and importance for providing ubiquitous access to the network for all of the campus community. Students, faculty and staff increasingly want network access from general-purpose classrooms, meeting rooms, auditoriums, and even the hallways of campus buildings. There is interest in creating mobile computing labs utilizing laptop computers equipped with wireless Ethernet cards. Recently, industry has made significant progress in resolving some constraints to the widespread adoption of wireless technologies. Some of the constraints have included disparate standards, low bandwidth, and high infrastructure and service cost. Wireless technologies can both support the institution mission and provide cost-effective solutions. Wireless is being adopted for many new applications: to connect computers, to allow remote monitoring and data acquisition, to provide access control and security, and to provide a solution for environments where wires may not be the best solution.

What is coming next will be a brief about the most frequently used wireless technologies nowadays
 

WiMAX is a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to wired broadband like cable and DSL. WiMAX provides fixed, nomadic, portable and, soon, mobile wireless broadband connectivity without the need for direct line-of-sight with a base station….more>>>>

Wi-Fi is a brand originally licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe the underlying technology of wireless local area networks (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802.11 specifications. Wi-Fi was developed to be used for mobile computing devices, such as laptops, in LANs, but is now increasingly used for more applications, including Internet and VoIP phone access, gaming, and basic connectivity of consumer electronics….more>>>>

Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is a technology aimed at providing high-speed wireless access over a wide area from devices such as personal computers to data networks.Communications may utilize a number of distinct physical channels simultaneously; this is multiplexing for multiple access. Such channels may be distinguished by being separated....more>>>>

Free Space Optics, also known as FSO, or Optical Wireless technology is increasingly used by service providers as a rapid-rollout, instant infrastructure to meet massive growth in user numbers and the demands of new-generation high-bandwidth wireless applications. By using advanced wireless laser technology, modern FSO vendors offer point-to-point bandwidths exceeding 2.5Gbps over distances up to a few kilometers…more>>>