...Wireless Fidelity, or Wi-Fi, exploding in popularity, companies and even some whole localities are increasingly providing access to the public. Due to its popularity, varieties of businesses are exploring their options to stay relevant and attract customers. Airports, train stations, grocery stores and other public locations are offering free Wi-Fi in hopes to lure the consumer to purchase their products. Free public Wi-Fi facilitates a lengthier customer relationship and offers a competitive advantage against other local coffee shops offering the same consumables. The accessibility that retail companies have offered to their customers allows for easy and convenient access to the internet. Background Information Wi-Fi is radio-wave technology known as IEEE 802.11b. Wi-Fi has an inexpensive installation and runs with speeds up to 11Mbps. An existing local area network, LAN, needs to exist to install wireless access points. The advantages are the mobility it allows, ability for multiple devices to quickly access with or without authenticating, higher speeds than wired access, and installation costs. The disadvantages include the need for multiple wireless access points to increase signal strength in large areas, narrow area of space that the wireless signal reaches, connection hiccups and the weak security points of having a public network. There is currently minimal security offered directly by the internet provider. Literature Findings Current State Wi-Fi is still currently...
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...The Evolution of Wi-Fi Charles Williams Albert Acuna ISSC340 American Military University Abstract From the creation of the IEEE standard in 1997 to current times Wi-Fi has evolved dramatically over the years. An idea to provide connectivity to devices with the absence of cables was adopted globally. Each year brings about new ways of utilizing wireless technology. This study aims to cover Wi-Fi from inception to present day and prospects for the future. The Evolution of Wi-Fi What exactly is Wi-Fi? A popular misconception is that Wi-Fi stands for “wireless fidelity”, however, it can be described as, a technology that uses radio waves to provide internet and network connectivity. The Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit organization founded by six companies in 1999, defines Wi-Fi simply as “connectivity”, connectivity in a way that provides freedom and the ability to move about without being tethered by cables, or stuck at a workstation. Wi-Fi symbolizes the ability to transfer data from one source to the next via a wireless link. Any product that houses the radio technology 802.11, a standard that has received widespread adoption, is considered a wireless device. The standard was developed in 1997. Fathers of Wi-Fi With any popular invention or supposed novel idea controversy seems to always linger in the background. When we think of the printing press we think of Johannes Gutenberg, however roots of printing with movable type can be traced back 350 years before...
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...Gi-Fi :The Next Generation Wireless Technology Vipin kumar1, Pravesh Kumar2, Ravi Kumar Yadav 3, Pravin Kumar4 1,2,3 Department Of Computer Science &Engg. Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun 4 Dpartment of Information Technology Campus CCS University, Meerut 1 2 panwar.rke@gmail.com praveshkumar160@gmail.com 3 ravijoin88@gmail.com 4 pravinpanwar.ccs@gmail.com Abstract---Wireless technology improvement has become follower in today’s modern life. One of the greatest improvements made on wireless technology field was inventing a new Wireless Technology (Gi-Fi). Gi-Fi or Gigabit Wireless is the world’s first transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60GHz on the CMOS process. Gi-Fi is a wireless transmission system which is ten times faster than Wi-Fi and it’s chip delivers short-range multi-gigabit data transfer in an indoor environment. It will allow wireless transfer of audio and video data up to 5 gigabits per second, low power consumption, usually within a range of 10 meters .This technology providing low-cost, high broadband access, with very high speed large files exchange within seconds. It is required that Gi-Fi to be the preferred next generation wireless technology used in home and offices. Keywords – WI-FI; Wireless Technology; Gi-Fi; Gigabit wireless; Bluetooth I . INTRODUCTION Melbourne University researchers have achieved up to 5Gbps data transfer rates on a wireless chip. This is a lot faster than any current Wi-Fi...
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...provides gigabit Wi-Fi speeds that allow content to download faster. Wireless-AC makes it possible for you to stream shows on your HDTV while family members download music or other files–without interruption due to a slow network connection. The AC900 includes a USB 3.0 port and four gigabit ports to let you connect multiple devices, allowing you to quickly print, share, and store content across your network. The Linksys AC900 Smart Wi-Fi router features beamforming, an innovative technology that optimizes the wireless signal strength between your connected devices and Linksys router. Beamforming enables the router to identify and connect directly with other devices, rather than simply sending out wireless signals in a general direction. The result is faster network speeds, better wireless range, and reduced interference from other devices. It also helps extend the battery life of connected devices and reduce their power consumption because data is transferred more quickly. Manage Your Home Network Remotely with Linksys Smart Wi-Fi With Linksys Smart Wi-Fi, you can access and control your home network from wherever you are using your smartphone, tablet, or computer. For example, you can set parental controls to restrict Internet access during certain times of the day and create unique, secure Wi-Fi passwords for your guests. You can also monitor activity on your home network, add new devices, and check upload and download speeds. In addition, Linksys Smart Wi-Fi allows you...
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...Li-Fi Technology. T.Ganesh ECE- A tganesh.gopi140@gmail.com Abstract Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) is a bidirectional, high speed and fully networked and a subset of optical wireless communications (OWC) and could be a complement to RF communication (Wi-Fi or Cellular network), or even a replacement in contexts of data broadwireless communication technology similar to Wi-Fi. The term was coined by Harald Haas and is a form of visible light communicationasting. It is so far measured to be about 100 times faster than some Wi-Fi implementations, reaching speeds of 224 gigabits per second. It is wireless and uses visible light communication or infra-red and near ultraviolet (instead of radio frequency waves) spectrum, part of optical wireless communications technology, which carries much more information, and has been proposed as a solution to the RF-bandwidth limitations. This OWC technology uses light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a medium to deliver networked, mobile, high-speed communication in a similar manner to Wi-Fi. The Li-Fi market is projected to have a compound annual growth rate of 82% from 2013 to 2018 and to be worth over $6 billion per year by 2018. Whether you‘re using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you‘ve probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more and more people and their many devices access...
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...Abstract Bluetooth technology was first founded in 1994 and in the 20 years since its finding Bluetooth continues to connect the world. From connecting cell phones to cars to connecting hospitals with one another Bluetooth has simplified the way we do things as well as made them more secure. There are limits to Bluetooth though, such as its range and the speed of transferring data. In the horizon Bluetooth has NFCs and Wi-Fi direct staring it down. We will also look at what these two technologies have in common with Bluetooth and where they are stronger and weaker than Bluetooth. Finally, will either of these two technologies take over the market that Bluetooth has dominated since it inception? “Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology that allows people to conveniently connect their devices with other devices and the role of the technology is evolving to not only allow devices to talk with one another, but actually allow the seamless communication between devices, local applications and the cloud (Rogerson, 2014)." Bluetooth is a simple way to connect to other individuals, to share pictures, videos, and music without having to use cords or wires. It allows individuals freedom to share without having to use data plans or service fees. Bluetooth is found in most electronic devices, including most smart cell phones, wireless speakers, headphones, computers, keyboards, computer mice, televisions, and even video games. Bluetooth became a project in 1994...
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...There are many different wireless technologies that can be used to make the Party Plates organization more efficient. This is a proposal to incorporate the use of Wi-Fi and laptops into our business. Incorporating Wi-Fi and laptops into our business will enable employees, vendors, and upper management to work faster and be more efficient. Wi-Fi is the method for wirelessly connecting to the internet. Wi-Fi can be used in our departments along with laptop computers to take orders, track inventory, or process orders without being tied to a desk computer. The laptops can be moved around in the building and will still have access to the internet. Upper level management can also benefit by having the wireless connection anywhere in the building. The pros Party Plates will run a much more efficient, competitive, and organized business by utilizing laptops and Wi-Fi in our organization. Laptops offer employees a chance to take the office with them wherever they may go. Benefits of laptops in meetings are: effective way to take and save notes, the ability to access a file instantly, login to the corporate intranet and instant message a question to another employee. Laptops present employees mobility and organization that desktops cannot reciprocate. Wi-Fi allows employees to access the web anywhere, allowing for instant...
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...continue to only get better, and in the IT world, more ways will be discovered to make connections even faster. Four wireless technologies that I will be discussing in this paper are the common ones that most people are familiar with: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular and WiMax. Wi-Fi is 802.11 wireless networking is used commonly in many public businesses and on many college campuses today. 802.11 specifically is used to create a WLAN that can be secured. Wi-Fi radios are used in many electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops, cameras, tablet PC’s, and printers just to name a few common devices. Best feature about this is everyone can have access to the Internet. To setup Wi-Fi, you still must use a wired connection to the Internet then the wireless routers sends and receives data to and from your electronic devices. As stated earlier, you can find many businesses using Wi-Fi such as Starbucks, your local library, most fast food restaurants, local colleges and universities, hotels, and airports. Cellular is another popular wireless technology that is used today as well. We commonly use this with our cell phones that allow a user to move while staying in contact with the network. Even though while being in a large area and having more coverage, at times you may have calls that drop and those are referred to as dead zones or spots. Now there is 3G and 4G available mostly everywhere which allows faster connectivity. Most of the newer smartphones...
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...passage of time. WiMAX combines the performance of Wi-Fi with the range and quality of service (QOS) of a carrier-grade cellular technology. WiMAX networks can be as small as single base stations with a few subscriber units, to much larger networks with thousands of users. 4G WiMAX gives us incredibly fast wireless access to the internet from four to ten times faster than 3G wireless. WiMAX technology will allow the subscribers to enjoy the amazing experience of high speed internet along with data, voice and video.There are few WiMAX service provider in Bangladesh, among them OLLO is newly came in market. In our report we focused on WiMAX technology based on the company OLLO’s various aspect of technological term. About WiMAX WiMAX, meaning Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, from point-to-multipoint links to portable and fully mobile internet access. The technology provides up to 10 Mbit/s broadband speeds without the need for cables. The technology is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard (also called Broadband Wireless Access). The WiMAX forum describes WiMAX as "a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL". How WiMAX works The working method of WiMAX is little bit different from Wi-Fi network, because Wi-Fi computer can be connected through LAN card, router...
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...Product Assessment Raynard Snow Principles of Marketing Dr. Walters July 27, 2013 Abstract In this paper we will discuss the phone booth and its diminishing role in society. As time change we have to change with it and by doing this some things will become obsolete. With cell phones as an everyday commodity, phone booths are like antique inventions that are becoming eye sores all around every city in the world. Questions will be asked and answered in this paper. Can phone booths be revamped? Will they never be used again? Are they more trouble or able to be restructured? These questions will be answered and a lot more information will be given out in the process. Product Assessment A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience. In the USA and Canada, "telephone booth" is used, while in the Commonwealth of Nations (particularly the United Kingdom and Australia) it is a telephone box or phone box. Such a booth usually has lighting, a door to provide privacy, and windows to let others know if the booth is in use. The booth may be furnished with a printed directory of local telephone numbers, and a booth in a formal setting, such as a hotel, may be furnished with paper and pen and even a seat. An outdoor booth may be made of metal and plastic to withstand the elements and heavy use, while an indoor booth (once known as a silence...
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...Case Study: Economic Analysis of Gogo’s In-flight Wi-Fi November 2, 2015 Introduction Gogo pioneered and now dominates the in-flight Wi-Fi business, which allows passengers to access the Internet during their flights. In recent years, consumers have grown from anticipation to dislike towards Gogo’s services due to its steady increase in fees and rapid decrease in speed. Through a dynamic pricing strategy they hope to relieve congestion which indeed have effect, but will not last in the fierce competition of an oligopoly market structure. Unlike its monopolistic position before, Gogo now faces at least three companies—ViaSat, Global Eagle Entertainment, and Panasonic— swiftly eroding its market share with cheaper and faster in-flight Wi-Fi services using satellites instead of antennas. Gogo’s own next-generation technology 2Ku, to come online in 2016, uses satellites that hopefully would achieve better prices with higher speed. To analyze the market for in-flight Wi-Fi and the pricing strategies of Gogo, our paper will discuss five core areas: The price elasticity of demand for Gogo’s service, and how it varies with price levels The market structure Gogo is operating in Its dynamic pricing How the demand for in-flight Wi-Fi has changed over time, technological changes over the past 15-20 years that has affected demand Technological factors that affect supply, how congestion affects pricing and our recommendation Price Elasticity of Demand...
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...technology has some significant benefits, it also has some disadvantages. Protecting confidential information within a company continues to be a concern for businesses all around the world. Another concern is the strength of a network and its ability to work at its full potential in broad range areas. Implementing a wireless technology like Wi-Fi will increase the productivity of any company or corporation. Wi-Fi will decrease the cost of materials and wires needed to link all of the workstations to a central network. Placing secure Wi-Fi points in and around offices for employees can significantly improve productivity within a period of work time. Yes, a Wireless Local Access Network gives you several advantages such as convenience, mobility, deployment, and expandability in a network. However just like wireless technology, Local Access Networks present some risk when using it. The company will need to make sure they have the protection required to support a system and keep unwanted users out. Establishments like Starbucks provide free Wi-Fi to customers so they can keep customers around and sell more products, which can be another way to utilize Wi-Fi. Starbucks is changing from AT&T to Google, as...
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...DIRECTIONS IN EVOLVING WI-FI: TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES Sumant Ku Mohapatra, Ramya Ranjan Choudhury, Pravanjan Das Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Trident Academy of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ABSTRACT New research directions will lead to fundamental changes in the design of future WiFi networks. However, with an explosion of wireless mobile applications and services, there are still some challenges on the spectrum crisis and high energy consumption. Wireless system designers have been facing the continuously increasing demand for high data rates and spectrum sharing required by new wireless applications and therefore have started research on future WiFi wireless technologies that are expected to be deployed beyond 2020. In this article we propose WiFi key technologies and there prospective: WiFi CERTIFIEDTM ac and Wi Fi CERTIFIED passpointTM . Also represent super WiFi such as WiGig solution, White Fi, HetNets and Cognitive Fi. Future applications and services facing these potential technologies are also discussed. KEYWORDS WiFi, Super WiFi, HetNets, IEEE standards, Cognitive WiFi,WiGig 1. INTRODUCTION WiFi is surrounding us. What technologies will define future WiFi ? Will key technologies related to WiFi creates road map towards its future or emerging super WiFi technologies extends? This paper focuses on new development alternatives that creates wireless access solutions means future of WiFi. WI-FI KEY TECHNOLOGIES AND...
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...BISM REPORT Having been employed as consultant by a Building Architect firm, I was requested to do a research to decide which mobile device would be most appropriate for the company to adopt and justify why the company should upgrade their information system infrastructure. I was also requested to look into management issues which the directors should consider. First important issue was to understand the needs of a building architect firm. The firm needs technical drawings, processes of visualisation, mobility, future growth or expansion and efficient processes when exchanging documents with clients. The mobile device which I was to recommend was to support all of the above issues which meant it should support architecture design software. My research was based on documents from text module book ‘Business information management second edition’ by Dave Chaffey and Gareth white, lecture slides from the blackboard and comparison web site on the internet. After conducting a number of researches on the internet I came up with a number of mobile devices which could be used by the Architect Firm. The table below shows these devices stack up against each other in terms of hardware and software features. Table1. Comparing Features: iPad 2, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPod touch | |iPad 2 |iPhone 4S |iPhone 4 |4th Gen. iPod touch | |review ...
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...Wireless Network Connections Bluetooth and Wi-Fi [pic][pic] Introduction There are multiple versions of a Bluetooth and not all Bluetooth specifications are the same. So you might want to make sure your two chosen devices will work with each other. All of the newer Bluetooth versions are backward-compatible, however, so as long as you’re using the more basic Bluetooth features, you won’t have much to worry about. Fewer products currently worked on Bluetooth 1.1 or 1.2, which offers such basic features as voice dialing, call mute, and last-number redial. In today’s world bluetooths main function are for music, printing, input and transfer. • Music-with Bluetooth wireless technology you can listen to music from your music player, mobile phone or computer using speakers, headphones, home stereos and many other devices. • Printing-with Bluetooth wireless technology you can also print your favorite pictures wirelessly directly from your Bluetooth enabled phone or PC. • Input-Bluetooth technology allows you to control your PC, laptop and more without the hassle of cords. • Transfer-easily transfer photos, music, and other information between your mobile phone and your PC or laptop using Bluetooth wireless technology. bluetooth versions • 1.1 Ratified as IEEE Standard in 2002 which allowed it to add the possibility of non-encrypted channels • 1.2 Faster connection and discovery with adaptive frequency-hopping...
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