From the course: Wireless Networking Essential Training
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Infrastructure wireless LAN
From the course: Wireless Networking Essential Training
Infrastructure wireless LAN
- [Instructor] The most common type of wireless LAN that we have is an infrastructure wireless LAN. Here, our wireless clients, like laptops or smartphones, they connect to wireless access points, and those access points, they have a hardwired connection to the rest of the network. And this type of network is also very scalable. If we want to support additional wireless clients, we can simply add additional access points, or if we want to extend the coverage area throughout a large building, we could strategically place wireless access points throughout a building. That would allow us to roam with our wireless device around the building and seamlessly attach and communicate with the wireless access point that was closest to us at any moment. And beyond the scalability of an infrastructure wireless LAN, these types of networks also give us additional management and monitoring features that we don't have with ad hoc wireless…
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