Just when consumers have learned to use--and pronounce--the wireless networks known as 802.11, along comes a few new versions that threaten to confuse the market. Millions of people and businesses ...

Industry standards play a critical role in research and development, product development and marketing initiatives, which in turn help organizations meet their business objectives. Standards simplify ...

Confused by the sea of numbers and acronyms that label Wi-Fi’s current and future standards? You’re not alone. Here’s a handy guide Most wireless standards come from the IEEE, whose 802.11 category ...

One measure of a region's technological power is its ability to set global standards. This capability directly reflects the region's knowledge base and global market share. Standards serve as ...

The proposed IEEE wireless LAN mesh specification is already getting some traction, though still over 18 months from final ratification, thanks to early experimentation by the One Laptop Per Child ...

The standard offers theoretical speeds ranging from 6.5 Mbps to 866.7 Mbps. There is always another standard coming. This one focused on high throughput wireless networks. It is the IEEE standard ...

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 ...

In the alphabet soup world that is wireless standards, there’s another one emerging you might be interested in: 802.11h. 802.11h defines the mechanisms 802.11a-based wireless systems should use to ...