'Wi-Fi5' Fails To Get Off The Blocks
News The name 'Wi-Fi5' has died a quiet death. 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...
[October 7, 2002, 10:12]
Wi-Fi Group To Rename 802.11a
News The Wireless Ethernet Compatability Alliance (WECA), a leading standards body for wireless networking, was set to call wireless networks using the 802.11a standard "Wi-Fi5. The original "Wi-Fi," based on the 802.11b standard that operates in the...
[July 19, 2002, 12:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 7/10/2002No high fives for the Wi-Fis. 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.
[October 11, 2002, 17:08]
