Combining Future WLAN

WLANs are constantly evolving to provide greater bandwidth for multimedia

applications and still handle an encrypted data stream without

degrading your throughput to the network. The most commonly

deployed wireless networking standard today is 802.11b, but we are on

the cusp of widespread deployment of 802.11a devices that are backward

compatible with all 802.11b networking hardware.

Even mobile devices are evolving so that they can provide greater levels

of computing power that fits literally in your palm. 802.11b is integrated

directly into the Palm i705. Wireless communication is becoming

a core function of handheld devices. However, it too suffers from all the

inadequacies of an insecure infrastructure. Therefore all the security

concerns for laptop computers are also valid for mobile devices.