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An overview of Wireless Networks WLAN The purpose of this paper is to present the reader with a brief description of the requirements for a combined wired and wireless network, the importance of the capacity of a wireless network, and to solidify the authors knowledge in the area of telecommunication gained in the last four weeks. The paper includes an overview of wireless network and general terminology needed to understand the issues. The topic of the paper has been substituted from the original topic: Describe the LAN of your company. The paper is the result of a study of several white papers retrieved from the World Wide Web. In recent years there has been increasing interest shown in wireless technologies for subscriber access, as an alternative to traditional twisted-pair local loop. A logical question is why this increase interest? Tom Fout in his paper titled Wireless LAN Technologies and Windows XP reports that the availability of wireless networking and wireless LANs can extend the freedom of a network user, solve various problems associated with hard-wired networks and even reduce network deployment costs in some cases. Why a Wireless LAN? Fout elaborates that high-speed wireless LANs can provide the benefits of net