January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
13h 33m
English
One of the first adopters of the ISM bands that the FCC freed for unlicensed use was the IEEE 802.11 technology. The IEEE 802.11 is a suite of protocols with a rich history and different use cases. 802.11 is the specification defining the Media Access Controller (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) of a networking stack. The definition and specifications are governed by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee. Wi-Fi is the definition of WLAN based on the IEEE802.11 standards but maintained and governed by the non-profit Wi-Fi Alliance.
802.11 owes its creation to NCR in 1991 who first developed the wireless protocol as a means of networking cash registers. It wasn't until 1999 when the Wi-Fi Alliance was formed that ...
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