The uses of broadband are numerous and widespread nowadays: email systems which can send attached files, sharing photo albums, virtual greetings cards, videoconferencing, games and other multimedia content.

With Wi-Fi, Orange provides a complementary solution to add to its existing offers: this technology meets the growing need for simplicity and mobility for customers wishing to benefit from the comfort of broadband wherever they are and whenever they want.

Wi-Fi corresponds to three main types of broadband use, whether professional or personal :

wireless in the office
wireless at University
wireless at home
on the move wireless in hotspots

Within the company environment, Wi-Fi provides a new freedom for employees and professional partners as it extends the existing wired network to cover meeting rooms, offices, warehouses… providing equivalent performance.
Thus, for example, any employee in a meeting room can have access to his working environment (email, Intranet, database access), and can react to any request in real time.

Wi-Fi also constitutes an advantage for external visitors to the company who can access their own Intranet in complete security via broadband Internet from their laptops. Orange and Intel joined in order to build a Withe paper dedicated to the Wi-Fi access for the external visitors in the companies. More information

This wireless technology provides improved efficiency and flexibility to the task of organizing offices and managing visitors while preserving software security as the level of authorized information access can be determined for each user.

Wi-Fi also reduces the amount of cabling between different office and computer equipment (especially computers, printers, scanners), simplifying computer installations, even cutting costs in the case of offices which are difficult to cable.

France Telecom also integrates Wi-Fi technology in its various professional packages on offer (Wanadoo, Oléane, Transpac, Equant), and particularly within managed LAN packages and broadband access offers targeted to companies.

France Telecom R&D has established one of the first private Wi-Fi networks in France, in collaboration with the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg.
Since February 2002, all Strasbourg campuses are linked to the wireless broadband Internet and access the IP RENATER 2 network (very broadband national network of Telecommunications for Technology, Teaching and Research).
To ensure this wireless access, twenty Wi-Fi routers were installed in university buildings.
Students and researchers now have high-speed radio access to their email, the local University network and Internet from their computers, wherever they may be on the campus.

Thanks to Wi-Fi, broadband at home no longer means cabling. Using an access point connecting all the various electronic equipment in the house to Internet (laptops, Internet tablets, digital cameras, games consoles…) users can surf on Internet via ADSL from any room in the house (even on the patio or in the garden!) and share this connection between different computers and wireless desktop devices.
Beyond the comfort of use, the forecasts for future developments in Wi-Fi technology predict our homes will be organized differently. It will be possible to centralize all your multimedia data on one device, a personal computer for example, and to consult it from the other terminals.
What could be handier than to listen to your MP3 music files stored on your computer using your Hi-Fi system or walkman, watch a film downloaded from Internet on the television screen, play connected to Internet using your wireless games console…
Such developments will soon be possible thanks to the integration of Wi-Fi technology in this equipment, developments currently being investigated by different manufacturers.

Wanadoo's new packaged solutions, pre-configured and certified equipment and technical support services privilege easy-to-install technology and combine with the current range of wireless broadband access packages as part of its policy to provide solutions that are close at hand and user-friendly.

As a wireless technology, Wi-Fi is at its most useful for users on the move, who want to access Internet from their laptops, or exchange data outside their personal or professional environment.
Wi-Fi works alongside GRPS and UMTS networks, from both geographic and usage points of view.
Wi-Fi technology is indeed particularly suited to very populated places: hotspots. It provides better broadband coverage in limited area (about 100 metres around the router) thus complementing mobile networks providing national coverage.
Mobility and connecting on the move go hand-in-hand, particularly as users can change from one transmission solution to another according to their needs, without worrying about the technology.
Find out more about the list of hotspots