Many factors must be considered when choosing a network medium: cost, speed, expandability and distance, environment, and security. Wireless media is increasingly evolving to offer sophisticated options that meet the demanding needs of businesses, while wired media, the traditional go$-$to technology, continues to decrease in cost$.$ This progression offers many businesses the option to become an all$-$wireless workplace $($AWW$)$ for connections to workstations and other endpoints on the network, and even between many devices on the network backbone.