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A Wireless Home Theater or Entertainment system can refer to setup that simply has a set of wireless surround sound speakers to a system that incorporates wireless home networking.

One new development that is getting attention as a practical wireless solution for home theater is employing a wireless powered subwoofer.

Bluetooth technology has impacted the way consumers connect portable devices, such as headsets for cell phones. However, with the advent of wireless technology for home entertainment, Bluetooth is also a method for wireless connectivity in home theater systems.

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Wireless technology makes great sense in home entertainment networks because of the relatively low cost involved in adding wireless capability to devices, and because of the convenience they give you.

The flexibility that wireless links provide also allows you to manage your entertainment WLAN from different locations and with different devices and software, shifting to better technology as time goes by.

Through the use of network shares and servers, you can access digital libraries of audio and digital video files from anywhere you have wireless coverage, resulting in entertainment and information on demand. A wireless MP3 jukebox (when they finally become available as a standard feature) would allow you to choose the music you want to listen to at any time by downloading just those tracks from your audio library before you head out the door to the gym or to work.

One-third of Americans streamed a movie or TV show on Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Crackle or another Net-based video service

Given that consumers store their entire lives on tablets and smartphones – from games to movies to pictures – creating a simple way to project mobile content onto the big screen is an essential capability of the digital home.

To enable seamless Internet searching, HD viewing and wireless gaming, retrofitting the digital home with superior wireless solutions is a critical step in delivering a superior mobile experience.

When mobile entertainment finally arrived and began to gain a greater audience, carriers started to push back for fear of how these apps would impact the network. Up until this point in the U.S. market, carriers had essentially controlled which apps would be allowed to run freely on their network.

As smart phones became more powerful, particularly with the launch of Apple Inc.’s first iPhone, and social media began to really catch on, a general chant for open access to whatever consumers wanted to do on their mobile device was at a high point. A new world of mobile media seemed to converge all at once.

With the advent of Ethernet, the typical practice is to oversubscribe all the wireless network services (based on individual peak rates) knowing that there is a statistical improbability of hitting the peak rate across all your wireless communication towers at the same exact moment.

Now enter video streaming where data is “streamed” between two wireless communication points over a sustained period (e.g., 30-second YouTube video clips, Skype HD Video Conferencing, Netflix movies). The sustained aspect of these video streams begins to strain the overall stat mux paradigm.

If the Windows operating system ever notifies you about a weak Wi-Fi signal, it probably means that your connection isn't as fast or as reliable as it could be. Worse, you might lose your connection entirely in some parts of your home. If you want to boost the signal for your wireless network (WLAN), try some of these tips for extending your wireless range and improving your wireless network speed and performance.

Wireless broadband has been growing steadily over the last few years, especially as the performance of wireless technologies has caught up with and surpassed traditional wired broadband infrastructure. One of the key enablers for this growth is the number of government grants available that can be utilized to fund wireless broadband initiatives. You may think that these grants are limited to certain types of organizations, or that they are too hard to apply for and secure to be worth the time. Fortunately, that's not true at all.

Cisco puts a huge value on the 'Internet of everything'

Cisco unveils software, hardware for hybrid wireless networks

Operators set stage for international Wi-Fi roaming

Wireless connectivity solutions are vital in powering the next-generation of connectivity to be leveraged by mobile devices, 4G/LTE networks and communication applications. When supporting wireless connectivity solutions, it is vital that systems and components work together to provide high network performance at a cost-effective price.

Wireless broadband technology provides its users a cutting-edge and lightning fast Web browsing experience without the hassles and limitations of wires.

The concept of wireless broadband is still relatively new. When you hear of broadband, you think of any relatively fast network. The term “broadband” actually has a more technical meaning which defines a point at which a network can be considered “broadband.” Two factors that define a network is its speed and bandwidth.

Broadband networks now expand beyond the four walls of your home or any given building. Cell phone carriers and providers provide mobile broadband connectivity for not only cell phones but for other wireless-enabled devices such as laptops and computers as well.

Wi-Fi is one of the most ubiquitous wireless communications technologies in use today, primarily because it is easy to install, easy to use and inexpensive. Wi-Fi was originally designed as a way of extending internet connections wirelessly within an enterprise. However people soon began installing Wi-Fi Access Points at home and in public Hotspots to give convenient internet access to laptops, which ended up with Wi-Fi chips installed as standard. Today there are hundreds of millions of devices which use Wi-Fi including tablets, smart phones, TVs and set tops. There are millions of public hotspots and many hundreds of millions of home and enterprise access points. The Wi-name Fi is reserved for the IEEE 802.11 standards – so far A, B, G and N, with more on the way, and use 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum bands, with more being considered up to 60 GHz. Wi-Fi today is managed and policed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Wi-Fi reach varies with the power of the signal and the spectrum used, but will typically reach a few hundred feet and current generation devices will provide between 50 Mbps and a 100 Mbps shared between connected users.

This is especially true for wireless technologies: cellphones have, amongst other things, been predicted to improve healthcare access in rural areas, WiFi has been predicted to spawn a myriad of portable devices to be used on hospital wards, and Bluetooth promised to bring improved sensor devices to hospitals.