• Cost: Depending on your budget and needs, the selected technology should be low in cost. As with most small businesses, average consumers have limited financial resources.

• Scalability: The technology should be able to support scalability. It should be able to respond to any size incident and simultaneous incidents. It should also be able to change or improve the coverage over time.

• Standard interfaces: The technology with standard interfaces makes the transition to new versions that much easier. It will also be help save costs in testing and integration. Standard interfaces also tend to help you avoid being tied to one manufacturer or technology as the needs of the application changes with time.

• Bandwidth: The selected technology should be able to support multiple simultaneous applications at a constant data rate. The use of these applications are common in places like government offices or large businesses.

• Protocols support: The technology must be able to support standard Internet protocols to enable standard features such as IP multi-cast and data encryption. This also makes it able to use the existing frame of other related features, such as data transmission reliability, user authentication, and encryption.

Wireless technology is considered to be one of the advanced network technology offers wider and more modern benefit as compared to a wired network. As wireless networks can be used either in your home or in your small business, there are several factors which can help you to decide whether or it not it makes sense to replace your wired network with a wireless one.

Heather Wardell received her first Palm handheld in 1997 (from a boss who couldn't get the hang of Graffiti) and has never looked back. She worked in banking as a systems analyst for four years, and then moved into elementary education, teaching computers at a private elementary school for four years. Heather is now a full-time women's fiction writer, and her first novel, "Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo" is available for free download through her Web site at http://www.heatherwardell.com.