• 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.

For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise, has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com.