From Wired to Wireless
The networking industry began to grow in the 1980s and took off in the 1990s, with the confluence of affordable PCs and the growing popularity of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Already on an incredible trajectory in the late 1990s, the industry benefited from another boost in the form of wireless networking—and there was another even bigger boost to come.
This “second wave” of networking was initially made possible by a groundbreaking decision by the U.S. regulatory body in charge of telecommunication rules, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—the opening of several bands (contiguous ranges of radio frequencies) of the radio spectrum for unlicensed use in 1985. This was a big change, given that apart from ...
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