A comprehensive bandwidth management mechanism will control and coordinate access to the wireless media so that no station, hidden, impaired or otherwise, transmits unless permitted or scheduled. Without this level of media control, little prevents a single station from consuming most of the wireless link with something as trivial as a preloaded flood ping.
Several companies make wireless equipment that controls access at the MAC layer. Names that come to mind include Karlnet, Broadstone Networks and Alvarion.
Seth
Fred Weston wrote:
My point was simply that the average user cannot utilize any more bandwidth than is available to them at the point where the wireless network becomes the Internet, so it makes sense to manage it there.
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