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                                                                Exhibit 10.1.4.1


                               FIRST AMENDMENT TO
                      AIRONET WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
                        1999 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

                                    RECITALS

         A.   The Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc. 1999 Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (the "Plan") was adopted by the Board of Directors of Aironet
Wireless Communications, Inc. (the "Company") on April 12, 1999 and approved by
the stockholders of the Company on May 7, 1998.

         B.   The Plan provides for certain eligibility requirements for
participation in the Plan and for an initial transitional Payment Period for the
implementation of the Plan;

         C.   As the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors desires to
amend certain of these provisions, the Plan is hereby amended as follows:

         1.   PLAN AMENDMENT.

         Section 3 of the Plan captioned "ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES" is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

              3. ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES. Each full-time employee of the Company
         or any of its Participating Subsidiaries, and each part-time employee
         thereof regularly working at least 20 hours per week or 40 hours every
         two weeks, who has completed 12 months of continuous employment with
         the Company and/or one or more of its Participating Subsidiaries and
         whose Base Compensation does not exceed $150,000 shall be eligible to
         receive options under this Plan to purchase Common Stock. Persons who
         have been so employed for 12 months or more on the first day of a
         Payment Period shall receive their options as of such day. The
         determination of an employee's Plan eligibility with respect to the
         Base Compensation limitation will be made only as of the beginning of
         each Payment Period, based on the rate of Base Compensation he or she
         is then receiving, without regard to any changes in his or her Base
         Compensation that may subsequently be made during that Payment Period
         (including any changes given retroactive effect to a date prior to the
         commencement of the Payment Period). Except as otherwise provided in
         Section 14, all other eligibility requirements must be satisfied at all
         times throughout the Payment Period until and including the third
         Friday of the last month of such Payment Period or, in the case of the
         requirement that a participant be employed by the Company or a
         Participating Subsidiary, up until and including the last Business Day
         of such Payment Period (PROVIDED that, after the third Friday of the
         last month of the Payment Period, satisfaction of said employment
         conditions shall be determined without regard to the full-time and
         part-time minimum hour requirements of the first sentence of this
         Section 3, which full-time and part-time minimum shall apply for that
         Payment Period only through said third Friday). All

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         participating employees satisfying the eligibility requirements of the
         Plan as of said third Friday or last Business Day of the Payment Period
         as provided in the preceding sentence shall be entitled to purchase
         shares on the last Business Day of such Payment Period as provided in
         this Plan. Any employee eligible to and duly participating in the Plan
         as of the beginning of a Payment Period but who at any time during that
         Payment Period loses his or her status as an Eligible Employee will be
         deemed to have lost such status, and to have withdrawn from
         participation in the Plan as described in Section 10, effective as of
         the beginning of the regular payroll period during which he or she
         ceases to satisfy any such requirement; PROVIDED, however, that if such
         ineligibility is the result of the termination of his or her
         employment, the provisions of Section 15 shall, subject to the
         provisions of Section 14, control over the initial provisions of this
         sentence.

                  In no event may an employee be granted an option if such
         employee, immediately after the option is granted, shall own stock
         representing 5% or more of the total combined voting power or value of
         all classes of stock of the Company. For purposes of determining stock
         ownership under this paragraph, the rules of Section 425(d) of the Code
         shall apply, and stock which the employee may purchase under
         outstanding options shall be treated as stock owned by the employee.

         Section 27 of the Plan captioned "APPROVAL OF STOCKHOLDERS;
IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN" is amended in its entirety to read as follows:

                  27. APPROVAL OF STOCKHOLDERS; IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN. This
         Plan was adopted by the Company's Board of Directors subject to and to
         become effective only upon, approval hereof by the Company's
         stockholders, which approval was obtained by written consent on May 7,
         1999. The Plan shall begin operation using an initial transitional
         Payment Period beginning on the first pay day in November 1999 and
         ending December 31, 1999, for the purposes of which initial Payment
         Period the Closing Price on the first pay day in November 1999 shall be
         used as the initial Closing Price called for by Section 2 for purposes
         of determining the Option Price, the first pay day in November 1999
         shall be used as the date for measuring employee's length of continuous
         service and Base Compensation for purposes of determining their
         eligibility to participate in the Plan, and the first pay day in
         November 1999 shall be used as the initial date as of which payroll
         deductions shall begin to accumulate under the Plan. Except as
         specifically provided in this Section 27, the Plan shall, during and
         with respect to said initial Payment Period, be governed by and
         administered in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing
         Sections 1 through 26 of this Plan. With respect to all Payment Periods
         beginning on or after January 1, 2000, the Payment Periods, related
         determinations of the Option Price and employee eligibility and
         accumulation of payroll deductions, and all other matters arising under
         the Plan shall be governed by and administered in accordance with the
         provisions of this

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         Plan without regard to the transitional rules set forth for the initial
         implementation of this Plan as set forth in this Section 27.

         2.   EFFECTIVENESS OF AMENDMENT. This Amendment was duly approved and
adopted by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors and became
effective on October 29, 1999.

         3.   Each initially capitalized term used but not defined in this
Amendment shall have the same meaning given to such term in the Plan.

         4.   Except as amended hereby, the provisions of the Plan shall remain
in full force and effect.

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