Application Requirements

Wireless Network Types Summary Tables (Week 9)
Associate Program Material
Appendix H
Wireless Network Types Summary Tables
Complete the Week Nine Capstone CheckPoint by filling in the summary tables below. These tables will help you summarize wireless network types.
Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) |Maximum transmission distance |10 meters or 33 feet |
|Two current applications of WPANs |PDAs and Smart Phones, even tablets using Bluetooth connections. |
| |Laptops and Netbooks using ad-hoc |
|Research WPANs and list one future use of this |A possible future of this technology is to use it for RFID |
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Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
|Maximum transmission distance |107 meters or 350 feet |
|Two current applications of WLANs |Used in Home networks and businesses. Supports wireless printing |
| |Used in Coffee Shops for free WIFI |
|Research WLANs and list one future use of this |One future use of this technology is for frequency-hopping spread spectrum. |
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Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN)
|Maximum transmission distance |50 kilometers or 31 miles |
|Two current applications of WMANs |Provide connectivity to hundreds or even thousands of users across the metro area.|
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| |Serve as a company’s main network to connect to different departments scattered |
| |over the city. |
|Research WMANs and list one future use of this |This technology could have a future in Free Space Optical Communication |
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Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN)
|Maximum transmission distance |Over 50km or 31 miles and goes up to across countries. |
|Two current applications of WWANs |Establish Networks over large areas such as across countries |
| |Cellphone data networks like GSM and GPRS |
|Research WWANs and list one future use of this |Can allow high speed in the cell networks with UTMS or 4G operation bug fixes. |
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