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replacing WEP security until manufacturers implement AES at the
hardware level.
11. Can Wireless products support printer sharing?
Wireless products perform the same function as LAN products.
Therefore, Wireless products can work with Netware, Windows 2000, or
other LAN operating systems to support printer or file sharing.
12. Would the information be intercepted while transmitting on air?
WLAN features two-fold protection in security. On the hardware side,
as with Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum technology, it has the inherent
security feature of scrambling. On the software side, WLAN series offer
the encryption function (WEP) to enhance security and Access Control.
Users can set it up depending upon their needs.
13. What is DSSS? What is FHSS? And what are their differences?
Frequency-hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) uses a narrowband carrier
that changes frequency in a pattern that is known to both transmitter and
receiver. Properly synchronized, the net effect is to maintain a single
logical channel. To an unintended receiver, FHSS appears to be short-
duration impulse noise. Direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS)
generates a redundant bit pattern for each bit to be transmitted. This bit
pattern is called a chip (or chipping code). The longer the chip is, the
greater the probability that the original data can be recovered. Even if
one or more bits in the chip are damaged during transmission, statistical
techniques embedded in the radio can recover the original data without-
the need for retransmission. To an unintended receiver, DSSS appears as
low power wideband noise and is rejected (ignored) by most
narrowband receivers.
14. What is Spread Spectrum?
Spread Spectrum technology is a wideband radio frequency technique
developed by the military for use in reliable, secure, mission-critical
communication systems. It is designed to trade off bandwidth efficiency
for reliability, integrity, and security. In other words, more bandwidth is
consumed than in the case of narrowband transmission, but the trade off
produces a signal that is, in effect, louder and thus easier to detect,
provided that the receiver knows the parameters of the spread-spectrum
signal being broadcast. If a receiver is not tuned to the right frequency, a
spread –spectrum signal looks like background noise. There are two
main alternatives, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) and