LANs
RSS LANsWorms Vs. Perimeters: The Case for Hard-LANs
White Paper As there are several mechanisms malcode authors can use to bypass existing perimeter-centric defenses, this position paper argues that substantial defenses will need to be embedded in the local area network, thus creating... [01 Oct 2008]
Quality of Service Guarantee on 802.11 Networks
White Paper Rether was originally developed to support guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for shared Ethernet LANs. With the growing popularity of wireless LANs, this paper modified the Rether protocol to provide... [01 Oct 2008]
Technical White Paper for VPLS
White Paper Through membership discovery, PW establishment and maintenance, and MAC-based address forwarding in the VSI, it interconnects LAN sites across WANs and thus interconnects the LANs geographically scattered via the Internet. [01 Oct 2008]
WPA2 Security: Choosing the Right WLAN Authentication Method for Homes and Enterprises
White Paper Ask a hundred CIOs what three things about WLANs (wireless LANs) strike fear into their hearts, and the answers are likely to be similar: Security, Security, Security. Sure, you want good coverage. Sure, you want to... [30 Sep 2008]
Virtual Private Networks: Solutions for Cost-Effective, High-Speed Corporate Extranets and Wide-Area Networks.
White Paper Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have been used increasingly since 1997 to allow businesses to link separate Local Area Networks (LANs), build Wide Area Networks (WANs), create extranets with suppliers, or provide secure... [19 Sep 2008]
SBM Protocol for Providing Real-Time QoS in Ethernet LANs
White Paper This paper deals with the performance evaluation of LAN-Integrated Service protocol called SBM (Subnetwork Bandwidth Manager), a solution to handle QoS requirements over Local Area Networks. SBM is an RSVP-based protocol, which consists... [11 Sep 2008]
Inner Mongolia Electric Power Corporation Secures WAN With Juniper Networks ISG Series
White Paper In particular, the Corporation needed to thwart worms and viruses emanating from both internal LANs and the Web. Home to 24 million people, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China boasts the third-largest... [11 Sep 2008]
MPLS-VPNS and VLANs: Different Solutions With Similar Components
White Paper While 802.1Q VLANS create dedicated layer 2 LANs on a shared infrastructure and MPLS-VPNs create dedicated layer 3 WANs, they use very similar components. This paper uses parallels between existing 802.1Q VLAN (Virtual... [11 Sep 2008]
A Power Line Communication Network Infrastructure for the Smart Home
White Paper However, recent advances in communication and modulation methodologies as well as in adaptive digital signal processing and error detection and correction have spawned novel Media Access Control (MAC) and PHYsical layer (PHY) protocols,... [11 Sep 2008]
The flexcell Platform: A Software-Defined Radio Architecture for the Next Generation of Wireless Hubs and Open Architecture Wireless Hubs
White Paper Flexcell's Software-Defined Radio can support multiple RF bands including not only 2G and 3G mobile systems, but also HF band, VHF/UHF military band, radio navigation aid band, low-powered ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) bands,... [02 Sep 2008]
Wireless LANs vs. Wireless WANs
White Paper This paper discusses the differences between wireless LAN and wireless WAN, and the two technologies are explained in detail, including: coverage, speeds, security, costs and the different uses of each. [02 Sep 2008]
IEEE 802.11 Tutorial
White Paper While wired LANs have been a mainstream technology for at least fifteen years, WLANs are uncharted territory for most networking professionals. This paper explains major differences between wired and wireless... [02 Sep 2008]
Wireless LAN Security - What Hackers Know That You Don't
White Paper This white paper outlines how hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in wireless LANs & includes a section on the most recent available hacking tools. The information presented is a collection of already published risks... [02 Sep 2008]
Understanding Wi-Fi
White Paper Once confined only to specialty niches, wireless networks are now beginning to proliferate in the form of IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi) wireless LANs, allowing users to roam throughout a building with a laptop while still... [02 Sep 2008]
Security of the WEP Algorithm
White Paper The 802.11 standard describes the communication that occurs in wireless local area networks (LANs). The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm is used to protect wireless communication from eavesdropping. [02 Sep 2008]
