December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 30m
English
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802.11
Wireless networks are showing up everywhere. Corporations are deploying WLANs to allow employees to roam freely around corporate campuses without leaving the network. Some airports offer wireless access so business travelers can be continue to be productive while waiting for plane departures. Communities are banding together to provide wireless Internet access to homes that may not have direct access to wired broadband networks.
This rapid and widespread adoption would not be possible without a well-documented and structured set of protocols. The 802.11 family of protocols provides the basis for interoperability between equipment from different vendors. A PC card that utilizes the 802.11b specification from vendor A can communicate with an 802.11b-compliant access point from vendor B.
History of 802.11
The IEEE is an internationally recognized standards setting body. The IEEE has a long history of approving and maintaining standards that set the stage for industry innovation.
The IEEE breaks their standards into various committees. The IEEE 802 Committee deals with Local and Metropolitan Area Networks. The 802 series of standards is broken into working groups that focus on specific issues within the overall discipline of LANs and MANs.
The following is a list of some of the working groups within the 802 series:
- 802.1
Bridging and Management
- 802.2
Logical Link Control
- 802.3
CSMA/CD Access Method
- 802.4
Token-Passing Bus Access Method
- 802.7
Broadband LAN
- 802.11
Wireless
The 802.11 Working ...
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