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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011The Cisco CCNA Exploration curriculum provides a comprehensive overview of networking, from fundamentals to advanced applications and services. This course emphasizes theoretical concepts and practical application, giving you hands-on skills for designing, installing, operating, and maintaining real-world networks. While extensive online study resources and comprehensive textbooks are available, many students and instructors have requested a [...]
Cisco Press – Cisco Wireless LAN Security
Friday, June 4th, 2010Cisco Wireless LAN Security is an in-depth guide to wireless LAN technology and security, introducing the key aspects of 802.11 security by illustrating major wireless LAN (WLAN) standards that can protect the entire network. Because a WLAN is less effective as an isolated piece of the network, this book emphasizes how to effectively integrate WLAN [...]
Cisco Press – Deploying Voice Over Wireless LANs
Saturday, April 24th, 2010The definitive guide to planning, architecting, deploying, supporting, and creating Voice over Wireless LAN solutions Recent advances make it possible to deliver high-quality voice and video communications over a wireless LAN (WLAN), replacing costly wired telephone and video surveillance systems and dramatically reducing support costs. However, today’s new voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) technologies require fundamentally [...]
CiscoPress – 802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation
Thursday, March 18th, 2010The definitive guide to performing wireless network site surveys, selecting the right wireless equipment, and installing 802.11 wireless LANs Prepare for a WLAN installation with this definitive guide Perform a proper site survey to ensure the maximum performance of your 802.11 WLAN Compare and choose the right WLAN technologies to match application and users needs [...]
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010If you don’t have experience with Wireless LAN controllers and what is required to use them to manage Lightweight Access Points, then this guide can really help fill in the gaps. It includes everything you would need to know to configure and deploy a Wireless LAN controller, so you will want to skim the contents [...]
Cisco Press – Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
Thursday, January 21st, 2010This is the only complete, all-in-one guide to deploying, running, and troubleshooting wireless networks with Cisco® Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) and Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP)/Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP). Authored by two of the most experienced Cisco wireless support professionals, the book presents start-to-finish coverage of implementing WLCs in existing wired [...]
CCNP BCMSN Notes – Cisco Unified Wireless Network
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Autonomous APs can be burdensome to manage in large numbers; a lightweight solution is preferred. Lightweight Access Points (LAPs) communicate with a centralized Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) through Lightweight Wireless Access Point Protocol (LWAPP) tunnels. The division of layer two functions between a LAP and WLC is referred to as a split-MAC architecture. LWAPP tunnels: [...]
CCNP BCMSN Notes – Wireless Architecture and Design
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Legacy Authentication Types Open Authentication No authentication is used; any client can associate to an AP. Pre-Shared Key (PSK) A pre-shared static Wired Equivalence Protocol (WEP) key authenticates the client to the AP. Tags: BCMSN Notes, Design, Wireless
CCNP BCMSN Notes – Wireless LAN Overview
Monday, November 9th, 2009Frame Transmission Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) is used in 802.11 WLANs to avoid collisions. The Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) handles the transmission of frames. If one station is currently transmitting, a station wishing to transmit must wait for the current station to finish plus the length of the DCF Inter-frame Space (DIFS) and [...]