The best known of theseare the 802.11 standards regarding wireless LANs, but there are also wireless networkingstandards regarding Personal Area Networks (PANs) and fixed location Wide AreaNetworks ...

The big news in wireless is the expected ratification of Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) by the IEEE standards body early this year. Some vendors are already shipping pre-standard Wi-Fi 7 gear, and the Wi-Fi ...

Wi-Fi 7 is the latest evolution in the 802.11 IEEE standard of wireless networking, and it’s the direct sequel to Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E. It’s faster, offers improved support for a greater number of ...

The implementation of a Chinese security standard for wireless networking could undermine efforts to develop a global standard for wireless LANs (WLANs) and drive up the cost of networking equipment ...

A designer of wireless applications has multiple choices of standards and protocols ranging from the simple to the amazingly complex. The most familiar choices are Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Bluetooth has ...

In early 2000, the IEEE 802.11 Task Group G was given the job of developing a higher-speed, backward-compatible physical-layer extension to the highly successful IEEE 802.11b standard. The new ...

Wi-Fi is everywhere and we can’t really do without it. But the current-gen Wi-Fi standard is limited to data transfer between devices, and with every new iteration, we just see better speeds and ...

IEEE 802.1X is a standard that defines how to provide authentication for devices that connect with other devices on local area networks (LANs). It provides a mechanism by which network switches and ...

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The IEEE 802.16 Ethernet standard for wireless metropolitan-area networks (MANs) is opening up a new area of communications, though no one knows what shape the market will eventually take. Even though ...

802.11 is a set of IEEE standards that control wireless networking transmission methods. They are used today in the following versions to offer wireless connectivity in different environments ...