Icomm wireless networks brochure

Until recently, most organisations would only have considered wireless networking as a necessity for areas in which traditional cabled networking was inappropriate, such as listed buildings. Today, wireless is often the first choice for all network applications.

The benefits of wireless communication are making themselves felt in all sectors of business, thanks in part to the rapidly increasing technology in this area, not least the Intel/Cisco 802.11b standard, and in part to ever-decreasing costs. Wireless networking now offers a realistic cost and performance competition to traditional voice and data cabling.

Within your organisation, wireless networking can be used either as an extension to your wired LAN or as an alternative to it; either to extend your network into those places cabling cannot easily reach, or to obviate the need for cabling altogether.

This is especially useful in organisations where workers move around frequently, which in traditional wired networks would involve searching for and plugging into the nearest outlet. In contrast wireless networking offers a truly mobile solution for the mobile office.

Network growth can also be accommodated with the utmost simplicity and no escalating cost. To extend your structured cabling to accommodate one more user might prove prohibitively expensive — with wireless networking they can be added at minimal expense, and anywhere in the building.

As part of a wider network, wireless communication enables your mobile users and field staff to stay in touch by telephone, email or through your intranet no matter where they are.

Wireless communication can also extend your network between buildings, into temporary structures, exhibitions or construction sites.