WaveLAN is a wireless system that offers end-users connectivity to network services anytime, anywhere. WaveLAN can be used to add a wireless extension to an existing LAN or function independently.
Award-winning WaveLAN, the consensus wireless LAN market and technology leader brings a whole new world of benefits to computer users everywhere. Now you can capture the high performance of wired LANs but with the flexibility, mobility and cost-effectiveness of wireless.
WaveLAN Network Interface Cards and WavePOINT enable instant LAN connectivity across facilities such as retail stores, warehouses, and hospitals where wiring is costly, difficult to install and lacking flexibility. WaveLAN offers a reliable, cost effective solution for wireless client access to the network.
WaveLAN wireless communication is based on radio-transmission technology.
WaveLAN does not require special site licenses. It uses Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum modulation technique to meet the regulatory requirements that are set for unlicensed usage in the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands (915 MHz and 2.4 GHz).
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) modulation provides:
A unique code, built into the WaveLAN product spreads the information
signal multiple times over the waveband.
The spreaded signal is transmitted over a wide frequency range, using multiple
frequencies simultaneously. This DSSS modulation makes the data transmission
virtually immune to interference, avoiding the need for many (time consuming)
retransmissions.
The radio signal will appear as mere noise and will yield unintelligible results, unless a WaveLAN equipped device is used to decode the signal. Only WaveLAN receivers know the spreading code that is required to “unspread” the radio signal and, by “match filtering”, be able to retrieve the original information signal.
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