With wireless LAN (WLAN) popularity continuing to soar, designers must now begin evolving this to the 5-GHz band. Making this leap will not be easy. The IEEE 802.11a system calls for 5-GHz WLAN ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit organization formed in 1999 to certify interoperability of IEEE 802.11 products and to promote them as the global, wireless LAN standard across all market segments, has ...

When the IEEE ratified the 802.11a and 802.11b wireless networking communications standards in 1999, its goal was to create a standards-based technology that could span multiple physical encoding ...

Wireless vendors face the challenge of supporting increasingly bandwidthhungry applications, such as voice over IP, streaming video and videoconferencing. How will they do it? Later this year, they ...

Our life is surrounded by internet services and it’s hard to imagine not being connected to the web one way or another. It’s also worth thinking about technologies such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which ...

SpectraLink is giving enterprises more flexibility with its Wi-Fi phones, introducing handsets that can work on all the major standard wireless LAN systems. The NetLink 8000 Series phones, announced ...