Wireless Learning Guide

Wireless Learning Guide

Don't get tangled up in wireless. Take it step by step instead. In this Learning Guide, we walk you through the basics and lead you up slowly to the complex. Our resources are plentiful!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
   Basic wireless definitions quick start
   Definitions: Wireless standards, specifications and protocols
   Resources: Wireless protocols, specifications and standards
   Enterprise wireless equipment
   Wireless applications
   Enterprise role models: Who's using wireless?
   Wireless decisions, deployment and management
   Wireless security
   Wireless tips
   Wireless expert advice
   Wireless white papers
   Other wireless resources
   More Learning Guides

Basic wireless definitions quick start
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• Glossary Definition: wireless


• Glossary Definition: wireless LAN (WLAN)
  
• Glossary Definition: wireless PAN (WPAN)
  
• Glossary Definition: Wi-Fi
  
• Glossary Definition: hot spots
  
• Glossary Definition: Centrino
  
• Glossary Definition: GSM
  
• Glossary Definition: GPRS
  
• Glossary Definition: 3G

Definitions: Wireless standards, specifications and protocols
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• Glossary Definition: 802.11
  
• Glossary Definition: 802.11x
  
• Glossary Definition: Bluetooth
  
• Crash Course: Bluetooth
  
• Glossary Definition: ultra wideband (UWB)
  
• Glossary Definition: Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
  
• Glossary Definition: Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
  
• Glossary Definition: Wi-Fi Protected Access
  
• Glossary Definition: WCDMA (wideband code-division multiple access)
  
• Glossary Definition: CDMA
  
• Glossary Definition: CDMA2000
  

Resources: Wireless protocols, specifications and standards
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• Featured Topic: Wireless standards and protocols
  
• Wireless standards overview
  
• Listing of standards organizations
  
• Crash Course: 802.11
  
• 802.11 Learning Guide
  
• Update: Ultra wideband

Enterprise wireless equipment (PDAs, notebooks, mobile phones, WLANs)
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• Fast guide – Handhelds and communicators
  
• Best Web Links: PDAs
  
• Best Web Links: Notebooks
  
• Analyst: Centrino offers stability, long battery life
  
• Mobile phones update
  
• Best Web Links: Phones
  
• WLANs Best Web Links
  
• WLANs troubleshooting guide
  
• Wireless LAN doesn't mean worriless LAN

Wireless applications
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• Wireless applications getting more powerful
  
• Wireless expert sees value in targeted apps
  
• The secrets to cheap, easy and successful wireless apps
  
• CTIA: CIOs want simplicity from wireless apps
  
• Wireless apps in a blue-collar world
  
• Components of a mobile solution
  
• Application of Bluetooth in the enterprise

Enterprise role models: Who's using wireless?
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• Featured Topic: Mobile case studies
  
• Case studies by vertical industry
  
• Mobile Innovators case studies

Wireless decisions, deployment and management
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• Know your wireless building blocks
  
• Fear of widespread wireless deployments
  
• Featured Topic: Managing mobile in the enterprise
  
• Best Web links on Mobile Management
  
• Q&A: Managing BlackBerrys
  
• Understanding the wireless landscape
  

Wireless security
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• 10 Common questions (and answers) on WLAN security
  
• Meta blames warring vendors for lagging WLAN security
  
• Putting wireless LAN fears to rest
  
• Glossary Definition: Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS)
  
• Securing handhelds
  
• Laptop security
  
• Securing notebooks while on the road

Wireless tips
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• Review Searchmobilecomputing's archive of wireless tips here
  
• Review Lisa Phifer's Wireless-to-Go tips, which include wireless product reviews, here

Wireless expert advice
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• View wireless questions posed to expert Lisa Phifer and her answers.
  
• Ask Lisa a question about wireless now
  

Wireless white papers
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• The CIO's guide to wireless
  
• Are you getting ready to catch the wireless wave?
  
• Five hurdles to successful mobile and wireless deployments
  
• Keep the bad guys out of your 802.11 wireless network
  
• A guide to wireless network security
  

Other wireless resources
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• Take our wireless quiz and test what you've learned!
  
• View our webcast library for wireless topics
  
• Poke through our Mobile Glossary for any terms we haven't covered in the Wireless Learning Guide