The AirPort Product Line
The first Apple AirPort products, released in July 1999, implemented IEEE wireless standard 802.11b. The original AirPort products were the AirPort Card, AirPort Base Station (Graphite), and AirPort software.
Based on the 802.11g standard, AirPort Extreme, the second-generation line from Apple, was released in January 2003. It consists of the AirPort Extreme Card, two models of the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and updated AirPort software. In April 2004, Apple introduced a third member of the AirPort Extreme Base Station family, known as the AirPort Extreme Base Station (PoE/UL2043), that supports the new IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet specification.
In June 2004, Apple introduced the AirPort Express, a portable 802.11g ...
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