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Glossary
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WAN
Wide Area Network
Wide-area network that is unrestricted in terms of area (e.g., Internet).
WLAN
Wireless LAN
Wireless LANs enable network components to communicate with a network using
radio waves as the transport medium. A wireless LAN can be connected as an exten-
sion to a wired LAN or it can form the basis for a new network. The basic element of a
wireless network is the cell. This is the area where the wireless communication takes
place. A WLAN can be operated in ad hoc mode or in the Infrastructure network.
WLAN is currently specified in the IEEE 802.11 standard.
WPA
Security standard in wireless networks.
WPA-PSK
WPA Pre-shared Key
Data encryption on wireless networks in which new keys are automatically generated
at regular intervals using a keyword (pre-shared key). The key is updated after a spec-
ified period of time.
