| Today, the WLAN
has redefined what it means to be connected. It has stretched the
boundaries of the local-area network. It makes an infrastructure as
dynamic as it needs to be. And it's only just begun: the standard is
less than three years old, with the high-speed 802.11b yet to reach
its first birthday. With standard and interoperable wireless
products, LANs can reach scales unimaginable with a wired
infrastructure. They can make high-speed interconnections for a
fraction of the cost of traditional wide area technologies. In a
wireless world, users can roam not just within a campus but within a
city, while maintaining a high-speed link to extranets, intranets,
and the Internet itself.
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