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Ultra wideband: involves the transmission of extremely short electromagnetic pulses lasting just
50 to 1,000 picoseconds
Advantages:
-A high throughput rate
-Ability to transmit virtually undetected and impervious to interception or jamming
-Lack of interference with current communications services
Infrared Transmission: sends signal at a frequency of 300 GHz and above
Frequently used in wireless networks, intrusion detectors, home entertainment remote control,
and fire sensors
ZigBee: a form of wireless communications frequently used in security systems and for sensing
and controlling energy-consuming devices in both residential homes and commercial buildings
-low cost technology
-requires little power
Longer life and smaller batteries
Wi-Fi: a wireless telecommunications technology brand owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance
With a Wi-Fi wireless network, the users computer, smartphone, or cell phone has a wireless
adapter that translates data into a radio signal and transmit it using an antenna, receives the signal
and decodes it
Hot spot: the area covered by one or more interconnected wireless access points
Wireless mesh: uses multiple Wi-fi access points to link a series of interconnected local area
networks to form a wide area network capable of serving a large campus or an entire city
-they are very robust
-if one node fails, all the nodes fail
Computer network: consists of communications media, devices, and software needed to connect
two or more computer systems or devices
Network nodes