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WIRELESS NETWORKING

In the present Information Age, computer networks have contributed greatly to information sharing, through support for electronic communications and access to the Information Superhighway – the Internet. A “Computer Network” refers to an interconnection of two or more computers and other related devices, basically for information sharing. The whole world is going wireless! The new technologies and standards that have been published in the past decade mean that almost everything we touch, every aspect of our lives have a wireless component in it. From cordless phones in the homes to cellular phones that are used throughout the world – to wireless local, metropolitan and wide area networks. Just as personal computers (PCs) in the 1980s forever changed how we work, and the internet in the 1990s dramatically changed how we acquire information, wireless communication is revolutionizing the way we live. Using wireless networks to send and receive messages, browse the internet and access