July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
14h 19m
English
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Supporting Wireless Technologies 161
authenticated and billed for services by their home entities (the users’
WISPs). For details of WISPr, please consult the WISPr document at
http://www.wi-fialliance.org/opensection/wispr.asp.
3.10.5 IEEE 802.11 Family
Within the IEEE 802.11 family, a few wireless LAN technologies
represent the evolution and refinement of wireless LANs. Table 3.6
provides a comparison of these technologies. Note that, to the gen-
eral public, Wi-Fi is probably the term that links to 802.11 wireless
LANs. The Wi-Fi Alliance is a nonprofit industry association formed
in 1999 to certify the interoperability of wireless LAN products based ...