The Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit organization formed in 1999 to certify interoperability of IEEE 802.11 products and to promote them as the global, wireless LAN standard across all market segments, has ...

With wireless LAN (WLAN) popularity continuing to soar, designers must now begin evolving this to the 5-GHz band. Making this leap will not be easy. The IEEE 802.11a system calls for 5-GHz WLAN ...

As 802.11a products began shipping months ago, more and more companies have been taking advantage of 802.11a’s superior performance. 802.11a radios transmit at 5GHz and send data up to 54Mbps using ...

In the IEEE standards camp, an 802.11e spec is being developed as an extension to the current 11M bit/sec 802.11b (2.4-GHz) wireless LAN standard to provide missing QoS and security provisions.

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 ...

Our life is surrounded by internet services and it’s hard to imagine not being connected to the web one way or another. It’s also worth thinking about technologies such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which ...

Wireless vendors face the challenge of supporting increasingly bandwidthhungry applications, such as voice over IP, streaming video and videoconferencing. How will they do it? Later this year, they ...

It has been widely reported that 802.11n, the wireless LAN IEEE draft standard that uses multiple input/multiple output technology to boost Wi-Fi speeds to over 100Mbps, is “backward compatible” with ...

LONDON, UK; 15 October 2019 – Imagination Technologies announces the launch of iEW220, Ensigma’s latest IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n 1X1 SISO Wi-Fi IP solution comprising of RF, baseband and MAC, supporting ...

The IEEE 802.11 specification (ISO/IEC 8802-11) is an international standard describing the characteristics of a wireless local area network (WLAN). The name Wi-Fi (which stands for Wireless Fidelity, ...

Jim Zyren, director of strategic marketing for wireless networkingat Intersil explains the draft standard and explains how its adoptionis an important step for the introduction of dual band radios.

The 802.11 designation refers to the IEEE’s WLAN standard, commonly called by its trade name, Wi-Fi. The suffix indicates one alternative of the standard. Currently, 802.11n is the most widely ...