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Your local hospital has decided to extend their offices to another section of the building where it is difficult to have cables installed, and you have been selected as the consultant to handle the related wired vs. wireless issues. You have been tasked with researching and presenting the advantages and disadvantages of both wired vs. wireless LANs. You may compare both Infrared and 802.11 LANs against the wired LAN or just use 802.11 against a wired LAN. Select 4 of the 8 bullets below to perform your comparison and ensure that within your analysis provided, you ensure feasibility.

* Mobility
* Interference
* Security
* Bandwidth
* Ease of Installation
* Reliability
* Performance
* Cost.

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The answer identifies wired and wireless LAN issues in comparison, highlighting mobility, bandwidth, interference and reliability.

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Comparison between wired Ethernet vs. wireless 802.11a/b/g/n:

1. Bandwidth is important to hospital personnel to quickly transfer large medical imaging data, and wired Ethernet comes out ahead with faster bandwidth speeds. Today many new deployments are implementing 802.3z and 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet at 1000 Mbps for client access, whereas the latest technology in wireless (802.11n) offers speeds of 150 Mbps, assuming proximity to the signal and little or no interference. In very rare cases where four spatial streams are used along with a 40 MHz-wide channel, 802.11n can go up to a data rate of 600 Mbps, which is ...

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