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 ...

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 ...

Premiering as the market?s first complete IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLAN device, the AR5006Xv chip integrates a media access controller (MAC), baseband processor, and a radio with both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz ...

Wireless networks are taking the business and consumer worlds by storm, but incompatibilities between emerging standards still cause uneasiness in some users and network administrators looking to make ...

Ready for sampling, the WiND502 multi-mode IEEE 802.11a/b/g and WiND512 IEEE 802.11g are dual-device chipsets that share a common MAC/baseband processor, the EN202. The WiND502 employs the EN303 RF ...

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.

The 802.11a standard was expected to begin taking the wireless LAN market by storm this year. Instead, its rollout has fizzled, despite the fivefold data rate increase 802.11a offers over its ...

Wireless routers use radio waves to transfer data between Internet access points and computers. The technical standard for wireless networking is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ...

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, ...

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 ...