Wireless Technology Is Difficult to Connect
To Other Parts of Information Systems
There are many challenging aspects to even the most fundamental system and process integration tasks within organizations that have standardized on a common platform. When platforms vary significantly by protocol and by technologies, as TCP/IP-based networks often do across any organization, integration becomes even more difficult. When the strategies and processes that organizations rely on to attain objectives are included in the analysis, the challenges become even greater. Because of the multiplicity of these factors, it is very difficult to connect the many forms of wireless technologies into legacy, third-party and enterprise-wide systems within an organization.
Lack of Integration at the Protocol Structural Level
At the most fundamental level of integration wireless networks often support a varying standard to the Carrier Sense Multiple Access, Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) based protocols that full category-5 cabled networks do, in addition to having more options for optimizing network performance. Wireless protocols for example support both asynchronous and synchronous communication and have for decades successfully compared to many legacy information systems platforms from proprietary vendors including IBM and their Token Ring standard and others (Adams, Dimitriou, 2008). Wireless networks have quickly moved forward with their own standards, driven by the acceleration of the IEEE 802.11 baseline that define the technologies, parameters and options used acorss the frequency spectrum of wireless networks. These standards are also being driven by the accelerating nature of new product development cycles and the reliance on often conflicting, yet continually improving, Wi-Fi standards. While speed and customization of IEEE 802.11 standards continues...
Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
Get Started Now