Wireless Network Essay

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The Evolution Of Wireless Networks
Could you imagine a world without the use of a wireless network? You wouldn’t be able to use any of your mobile devices such as your notebook computers, any of your tablets, or any other mobile device. Before there was any kind of wireless networks you had to be physically connected to a network using a network cable, something along the lines of a RJ-45 Ethernet cable (a cable used for transferring data).Having to be physically plugged into some kind of network port, this caused many problems, some of the problems it caused are as follows. First you had to be stationery, meaning you couldn’t get up and take it with you, and a fast paced world that we live in today who really has time to stay stationery for …show more content…

In 2003 a new amendment was created that was called 802.11g. Just like the previous standards radio frequency, this one ran on the 2.4 GHz as well. This standards throughput would increase a little bit. For the throughput it was published to be 54 mbps but in all actuality it ran at about. According to PC Magazine “802.11g is full backwards compatible with 802.11b”, meaning they can run on the same radio frequency. Seeing how they run on the same frequency they have the same indoor and outdoor range of 802.11b which was 150 feet for the indoor range and the outdoor range of 300 feet.
In 2007 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers started to create a new standard. It wasn’t until 2009 until the new standard that was known as the 802.11n standard was officially established. With the world turning to more devices with wireless networks the IEEE had to come up with something to be able to transfer data at a faster rate and a longer radio frequency range. With this new standard it did just that. Cisco has actually stated that “The 802.11n standard can optimize your network by up to 6 times the performance from any of the earlier standards the radio frequency that this standard uses is both 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz. An article from Intel said that “802.11n quadruples the throughput performance than the original standards with up to 600 mbps but on average about 200 mbps”. Consumers were amazed by how fast the …show more content…

You wouldn’t be able to connect to a network with your mobile devices. Also some medical supplies run solely on wireless so those devices wouldn’t work. There are many other things you will need to connect to a wireless network but this paper was about the evolution of it. The IEEE is actually always looking for ways to improve their wireless network standards. We are up to 1 Gig of throughput performance as of 2014 but as time passes more advanced technology will come about and data throughput can only grow from here.
Below I enclosed a photo of the wireless networks standards and there frequencies along with a little more data about the wireless network standards. Work Cited
The Economist Newspaper. “A Brief History of WI-FI.” The Economist Technology Quarterly. 24 June 2004. Web. 2 April 2014.
Pintello, Timothy. “Introduction to Networking with Network +” pg.73. Danvers: Maine, 2013. Print.
PC Magazine Encyclopedia “802.11 definition from PC Magazine”. 6 April 2014. Web. 7 April 2014.
"802.11n." Cisco. No publisher. No date. Web. 07 Apr. 2014 URL: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/802-11n/index.html
"Helping Define 802.11n and Other Wireless LAN Standards." Intel. No publisher. No date. Web. 07 Apr. 2014. URL:

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