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CWNA®
Certified Wireless
Network Administrator
Official Study Guide
Third Edition
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CWNA®
Certified Wireless
Network Administrator
Official Study Guide
Third Edition
David D. Coleman
David A. Westcott
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Dear Reader,
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Study Guide, Third Edition. This book is part of a family of premium-quality Sybex
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Acknowledgments
David Coleman would once again like to thank his children, Brantley and Carolina, for
their patience and understanding of their father throughout the writing of this book. I love
you kids very much. David would also like to thank his mother Marjorie Barnes and his
stepfather William Barnes for many years of support and encouragement.
David Westcott would like to thank his parents Kathy and George, who have provided
so much support and love and from whom he has learned so much. He would also like to
thank Janie, Jennifer, and Samantha for their patience and understanding of life on the
road and for their support throughout the writing of this book.
We must fi rst thank Sybex acquisitions editor Jeff Kellum for initially fi nding us and
bringing us on to this project. Jeff is an extremely patient and understanding editor who
has now survived publishing fi ve books with us. We would also like to thank our develop-
ment editor, Tom Cirtin. We also need to send special thanks to our editorial manager,
Pete Gaughan; our production editor, Christine O’Connor; and Liz Welch, our copyeditor.
We also need to give a big shout-out to our technical editor, Marcus Burton of the CWNP
program. Marcus, you are the man, dude!
A special thanks goes to Andrew vonNagy of Revolution Wi-Fi for his feedback and
content review. We would also like to thank Socrates Sakellaropoulos, Abbey Cole,
and Kevin Sandlin of the CWNP program (www.cwnp.com). All CWNP employees,
past and present, should be proud of the internationally renowned wireless certifi cation
program that sets the education standard within the enterprise Wi-Fi industry. It has been
a pleasure working with all of you the past decade.
Thanks to Proxim and to Ken Ruppel (kenruppel@gmail.com) for allowing us to include
the video Beam Patterns and Polarization of Directional Antennas with the book’s online
resource, which can be accessed at www.sybex.com/go/cwna3e.
Special thanks goes to Andras Szilagyi for not only creating the EMANIM software
program but for all the extra assistance he provided over the past six years by creating cus-
tomized versions of the program for the different editions of the book.
We would also like to thank the following individuals and companies for their support
and contributions to the book:
Aerohive Networks (www.aerohive.com) —Devin Akin and Paul Levasseur
Aruba Networks (www.arubanetworks.com) — Carolyn Cutler, Susan Wells, Kevin
Hamilton, and Chris Leach
CACE Technologies (www.cacetech.com) —Janice Spampinato
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