North Coast Medical has been approached by a vendor who is trying to sell them an infrared WLAN for their office. Because the equipment is proprietary, the cost is quite high, and this is one of their main concerns. Although none of the networking equipment will be placed around sensitive medical equipment, the office manager prefers infrared because he believes that other types of wireless networking equipment could interfere with the medical equipment in another hospital campus building that is located about 125 meters away.

You are asked to appraise how infrared, and radio wireless transmissions would work in the North Cost Medical office environment. In doing so, compare and contrast both in terms of transmission speeds (bits-per-second and baud rate) and the advantages and disadvantages of both for North Coast Medical.

Write in your own words (approx. 200 words)