Upstart Trucking Company

Wireless Networking in Upstart Trucking Company

Introduction

According to the task, the term paper must answer following research questions:

• Introduce wireless networking basic technologies.

• Identify advantage and disadvantage of wireless networking.

• Identify trucking company’s wireless network infrastructure such as WAN,WLAN, WPAN, RFID, and GPS.

• Security

Wireless Networking Technologies

Wireless network refers to any type of computer network that is wireless, and is commonly associated with a telecommunications network whose interconnections between nodes are implemented without the use of wires. Wireless telecommunications networks are generally implemented with some type of remote information transmission system that uses electromagnetic waves, such as radio waves, for the carrier and this implementation usually takes place at the physical level or "layer" of the network. (Wikipedia, 2010)

Wireless networking basic technologies addresses the various forms that wireless communications can take such as wireless personal area network, wireless wide area network, wireless local area network, and wireless metropolitan area networking technologies.

Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) interconnect devices within a relatively small area, generally within reach of a person. For example, Bluetooth provides a WPAN for interconnecting a headset to a laptop. ZigBee also supports WPAN applications. Wi-Fi PANs are also getting popular as vendors have started integrating Wi-Fi in variety of consumer electronic devices.

A wireless local area network (WLAN) links devices via a wireless distribution method and usually provides a connection through an access point to the wider Internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network.

Wireless Metropolitan area networks are a type of wireless network that connects several Wireless LANs. WiMAX is the term used to refer to wireless...