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Understanding wireless networking

Understanding wireless networking

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Understanding wireless networking

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- [Instructor] Wireless networking is everywhere. We use wireless networks to provide network access to our smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers, and to a wide variety of other devices, including televisions, thermostats, and home automation systems. As the use of wireless networks continues to increase, the security of those networks becomes of critical importance. The most common wireless standard in use today is wifi technology. Wifi is a set of standards, governed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and it describes the technical details of how wireless devices could communicate with each other and wireless access points. The use of a standard is absolutely essential because without a standard, wireless devices wouldn't speak the same language. Standardization is what allows any wifi device to work with any wifi network around the world. Wifi works by replacing the wires and cables of wired networks with radio transmitters and receivers. Every device…

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