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Article: Trends for protecting wireless WANs and LANs: a retrospective look at wireless security issues that made an impact on the wireless market in the last year and unique challenges that will be faced in the year ahead. (Wireless Security).
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- Wireless Design & Development
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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By 2003, technology analyst projections estimate that 23 million users in the U.S. alone will use wireless LANs (WLAN), with the Asia-Pacific region and Europe showing tremendous growth as well. Such well-known companies as UPS, FedEx and General Motors already use WLANs to give customers and employees more mobility and access to real-time information. 2001 was certainly the year of experimenting with the idea of a wireless enterprise.
Outside the enterprise, however, even more compelling data began to circulate, claiming that WLANs were positioned to disrupt the adoption of upgrading to next-generation 3G networks for two reasons. First, because 3G can offer ...