Wireless Networking Fundamentals: WANs, LANs, and PANs

 

 

Networld + Interop 2000 Workshop W833

Chris Murphy and Jon Rochlis

 

Technologies

 

o         RF, spread spectrum

o         www.sss-mag.com/ss.html - A good general guide to spread spectrum technologies

o         frequency hopping

o         direct sequence

o         U.S. Frequency Allocation Chart

 

Internet Approach vs. Phone centric approach

o         IAB wireless workshop notes

PAN’s  wireless personal area networks

o       IrDA  Infrared Data Association, www.irda.org

 

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o         Bluetooth

§         www.bluetooth.com  the “definitive internet guide”

·         Seems to have more information for non SIG members

·         Start here

§         Infotooth – newer but good information (one man show apparently)

§         www.bluetooth.org -- official SIG site

§         www.palopt.com.au/bluetooth/-- resource center,

§         good very high level overview article

§         Tik-111.550 Bluetooth Overview -- more detailed overview article

§         Bluetooth Security

LAN’s wireless local area networks

o         802.11

o         www.wi-fi.com - Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance, a compatibility certifying industry group

o         www.wlana.com - The Wireless LAN Association, a wireless lan educational group

o         products

o         www.apple.com/wireless - Apple Airport

o         www.wavelan.com - Lucent Orinoco system

o         www.xircom.com - Xircom, producers of 802.11b module for the Handspring Visor

o         www.enterasys.com/technologies/wireless/ - Enterasys (formerly Cabletron) RoamAbout system

o         www.intersil.com/prism/prism.asp - Intersil, manufacturer of the PRISM chipsets

o         www.symbol.com - Symbol, manufacturer of several wireless PDA and industrial appliance systems

o         costs

o         support

o         implementation

o         www.karlnet.com - Karlnet, producers of access point software. A configurator program for the Apple Airport and Microsoft Windows is available here.

o         edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/index.html - Jon Sevy's Java configuration tool for the Apple Airport

 

WAN’s wireless wide area networks

o         Pagers

§         Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) rfc1861

§         products

·        www.skytel.com - Paging service vendor

·        www.mot.com - Motorola pagers

·         www.glenayre.com - Glenayre pagers, including a Handspring Visor module

o        Richocet www.metricom.com

o        Cellular

§         www.goamerica.com

§         Palm VI

·         www.plam.net

·         www.palm.com/products/palmvii

·         www.plam.net/coverage

·         www.palm.net/myaccount/pricing.html

·         Elliptical curve security www.certicom.com

§         Palm V

·         www.omisky.com

o        WAP Wireless Application Protocol

§         WAP Forum www.wap.com

§         Phone.com www.phone.com

·         Overview docs/white papers www.phone.com/products/publications.html

·         Developer info from Phone.com

§         WAP FAQ – Independent of any company or WAP forum

§         WAPuSeek – very glitzy WAP information

§         Open source WAP gateway www.kannel.org

§         Search Engines directories for WAP content

·         www.waply.com

·         www.wapwarp.com

·         www.gixom.com

§         WAP Detractors

·         The WAP Trap – free open protocols point of view

·         WAP layer by layer description

·         WTLS security problems

 

This file last updated 29-Sep-00.