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A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data

connections between network nodes.[1]

Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications


networks and business installations avoid the costly process of
introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various
equipment locations.[2] admin telecommunications networks are
generally implemented and administered using radio communication.
This implementation takes place at the physical level (layer) of the OSI
model network structure.[3]

Examples of wireless networks include cell phone networks, wireless


local area networks (WLANs), wireless sensor networks, satellite
communication networks, and terrestrial microwave networks.[4]
Wireless LANs have become popular for use in
the home, due to their ease of installation and
use. They are also popular in commercial
properties that offer wireless access to their
employees and customers.
• How Wireless Networks works. ... Basically, first a computers
wireless adapter changes the data into radio signals and then
transmits these signals through the use of an antenna. Then a
wireless router receives the signal and decodes it. It then sends
the information through a wired Ethernet connection to the
internet.
• Wireless networks are typically implemented using one of two
wireless topologies: the infrastructure, or managed, wireless topology
and the ad-hoc, or unmanaged, wireless topology.
• A hybrid topology, which is what most networks implement today,
uses a combination of multiple basic network topologies, usually by
functioning as one topology logically while appearing as another
physically. The most common hybrid topologies include star bus, and
star ring.

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