Agilent Networking Possibilities in the Analytical Laboratory with Agilent Instrumentation and Data Systems说明书用户手册.PDF

Networking possibilities in the analytical laboratory with Agilent instrumentation and data systems Application Note Introduction The infrastructure needed such Using standard, low-cost inter- as network interface cards faces such as those available As the need for better informa- (NICs), hubs and cabling is inex- form Cisco, Linksys, D-Link, tion increases, connecting com- pensive. What can be costly is Lucent, 3Com, and other ven- puters in a network is becoming the labor and materials required dors, a laboratory can set up an more and more prevalent as a to install the network cables infrastructure for networking means to share resources and throughout laboratories, between computers without the cost of enable better decisions by bring- buildings, and across geographi- installing cables throughout the ing information together from cally dispersed sites. building to all possible nodes. diverse platforms. Networking is straightforward and easy to The industry has addressed understand with standard plat- these costs by utilizing new tech- forms and protocols governed by nology that allows to connect the computer and telecommuni- computers in wireless networks. cations industry. A standard called IEEE 802.11b was developed using the previ- ously unused 2.45 GHz band of the radio spectrum. This technol- ogy enables wireless communica- tion between comput