Wireless Topologies; Ad Hoc - Proxim RangeLAN2 752 Series Manual

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5. Wireless Topologies

RangeLAN2 products look and operate similar to Ethernet prod-

ucts. The only difference is that a radio replaces the wire between

various nodes. This means that all of your existing applications

that operate over Ethernet will work with RangeLAN2 without

any special wireless networking software. Wireless products are

typically used in several network topologies as described in this

chapter.

With wireless LANs, one or more computers easily establish an

ad hoc network when the units are in range of each other. Each

computer can dynamically connect and reconnect to the others

with no additional configuration, using off-the-shelf peer-to-peer

network operating systems. With this capability, many companies

are developing applications optimized for ad hoc networks.

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