'Wi-Fi5' Fails To Get Off The Blocks
News Wi-Fi5 was the moniker the Wi-Fi Alliance planned to give any wireless networking product it certified that used the 802.11a standard. It instead decided to call the new products "Wi-Fi," the same name it gives certified equipment based on the...
[October 7, 2002, 10:12]
Wi-Fi Group To Rename 802.11a
News It will soon be known as the "Wi-Fi Alliance," Eaton said. After all, Eaton said, all it was doing was certifying Wi-Fi products, so why wasn't it called the Wi-Fi Alliance? The original "Wi-Fi," based on the 802.11b standard that operates in the...
[July 19, 2002, 12:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They had come up with a name for 802.11b -- that's the second version, remember, and the first to find favour with the masses - of Wi-Fi. Why Wi-Fi, we shall never know. Likewise, why the non-compatible but much faster 802.11a was called Wi-Fi5 is...
[October 11, 2002, 17:08]
