Jim Zyren, director of strategic marketing for wireless networkingat Intersil explains the draft standard and explains how its adoptionis an important step for the introduction of dual band radios.

A faster variation on the 802.11b wireless LAN standard seems certain to arrive in the market too late to have any real use. The 802.11g specification may cause little more than confusion as it will ...

In early 2000, the IEEE 802.11 Task Group G was given the job of developing a higher-speed, backward-compatible physical-layer extension to the highly successful IEEE 802.11b standard. The new ...

The latest wireless networking specification is on track for standards approval, which should open the door for further adoption of the already popular technology. A working group within the Institute ...

A long-awaited standard for wireless LANs that offers more carrying capacity than the current IEEE 802.11b specification while using the same frequencies won final approval Thursday morning. The new ...

Vendors and solution providers have expressed enthusiasm about the new 802.11g standard because it promises to extend data rates from the current, popular 802.11b 11-Mbps to a projected 54 Mbps, while ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — The IEEE on Thursday (June 12) gave its stamp of approval to two new wireless local- and personal-area networking standards and two corresponding recommended practices. The move is ...

Ready for sampling, the WiND502 multi-mode IEEE 802.11a/b/g and WiND512 IEEE 802.11g are dual-device chipsets that share a common MAC/baseband processor, the EN202. The WiND502 employs the EN303 RF ...

A week following the IEEE’s final 802.11g spec approval, Apple has released an update to bring AirPort Extreme base stations and client computers equipped with AirPort Extreme cards in-line. The ...

A long-awaited standard for wireless LANs that offers more carrying capacity than the current IEEE 802.11b specification while using the same frequencies won final approval Thursday morning. The new ...