The latest wireless networking specification is on track for standards approval, which should open the door for further adoption of the already popular technology. A working group within the Institute ...

Wi-Fi systems enable products from different manufacturers to work together. This is made possible by international open systems, which no one manufacturer owns. All gain a commercial benefit by ...

Hoping to assuage concerns about the latest wireless networking specification, an industry group gave its time frame for the completion of interoperability tests ensuring optimal performance of new ...

Q: How should 802.11g fit into my WLAN deployment plans? – Stephen L., Ithaca, N.Y. A: The IEEE a few weeks ago ratified the latest 802.11 standard, 802.11g, after years of debate and development.

The 802.11g standard is still under development, with a final standard likely available by the end of 2002. With pre-standard chipsets just becoming available now, product vendors will probably ...

Intel is picking up the pace on introducing 802.11g technology into its products, as the emerging wireless networking specification gathers customer and standards support. The chipmaker is moving up ...

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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved a new and final draft standard for 802.11g wireless LANs that will have a true throughput for Internet-type connections of ...

In my previous tutorial, I discussed how to setup a home wireless LAN. Let’s take a closer look at the range and performance that you can expect from a single access pointin a home office environment.

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 ...

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 ...