Even then, though, there's no guarantee that the new securitystandards won't eventually be proven as flawed as the first. That'swhy plenty of testing and planning is in order. In Atlanta, the UnitedParcel Service is rolling out a WLAN project that processes nothingmore sensitive than tracking information, and using that project as atest bed for how laptop users might also use WLANs.

"If you read some articles, it sounds like everything is solid and allthere," says John Nallin, vice president of information services atUPS. "However, they're not always that solid. If that was the case, wewouldn't be testing it in our facilities, we'd just be plugging it in.When it's performing at the level we think it should be, we're goingto utilize it because we do see the advantages."