ABSTRACT
W ireless local area networks (wireless LANs, or WLANs) are one of the hottest wireless technologies around right now. T he/re turning everything from sports stadiums to coffee shops to corporate campuses into wireless access points, also known as “hot spots." There's obviously a different draw for all of these ven ues-in some cases, it's a customer-retention feature, while in oth ers it's an issue of employee productivity.