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Wireless networking wars hit speed bump
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has created 802.11A, a standard that will run at data transfer rates of 54mbps. For example, Cisco in November acquired 802.11A chipmaker Radiata for $295 million and expects to...
[February 27, 2001, 9:22]
Wireless networking made easier review
Reviews And just to make things more exciting, vendors haven't agreed on the nomenclature: Even though the IEEE (the arbiter of wireless networking standards) has defined 'access point' pretty strictly, what one vendor calls an access point, another might...
[March 2, 2004, 14:15]
Security and wireless networking review
Reviews The technology involved is covered by the 802.11 group of around 19 standards drafted by the IEEE. The huge convenience of wireless networking tends to overshadow its high degree of vulnerability to attack.
[July 23, 2007, 15:06]
Catch the new wave in wireless networking: 802.11n review
Reviews The 802.11n standard is still being ironed out, and the IEEE, or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, doesn't expect to ratify this developing specification until 2006. We've already reviewed the first round of MIMO-enabled networking...
[May 3, 2005, 12:05]
IEEE 802.1X in Secure Wireless Networking
White Papers Applying the IEEE 802.1X protocol to wireless networking in conjunction with 802.11 dramatically simplifies the management of secure wireless LANs. The IEEE 802.1X protocol can also be used to manage policy-based bandwidth provisioning and VLAN...
[March 2, 2004, 11:18]
Linksys releases dual-band Wi-Fi card
News Linksys's Wireless Dual Band A+G Wireless PC Card for notebook computers supports not only 802.11b -- the prevailing IEEE standard for wireless networking -- but its newer cousins 802.11a, which sacrifices bandwidth for range, and 802.11g, which...
[March 6, 2003, 7:36]
Belkin Wireless Pre-N router: a first look review
Reviews This upcoming 108Mbps technology is expected to replace 54Mbps 802.11g as the new high-performance wireless networking standard of choice, but formal IEEE ratification probably won't come until late 2005.
[September 6, 2004, 11:00]
802.11g on track for finalisation
News A working group within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an organisation responsible for setting standards for the networking industry, finished work on the most recent version of the 802.11g wireless networking...
[May 22, 2003, 8:22]
802.11g: Final testing begins
News Completion of those tests depends on the approval by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of the 802.11g specification as a standard. Earlier this month, the IEEE said it expected to finalise the 802.11g standard in June.
[February 26, 2003, 12:49]
Group gives nod to faster wireless
News Technology companies, through an industry standards group called the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), on Thursday tentatively approved a new standard called 802.11g that reaches data transfer rates of 54 megabits per...
[November 16, 2001, 14:12]
Comdex 2001: Intel funnels PC advances into motherboard
News With Hannacroix, Intel decided to support both USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394a "Firewire," two dueling standards for connecting devices such as digital cameras, MP3 players, network cards and hard disks. It started out as a fast connection for digital video...
[November 13, 2001, 9:42]
Orinoco floats WLAN management tool
News Maas did not expect a multi-vendor version any time soon, but said he hoped that the IEEE would begin work on a multi-vendor WLAN management interface, possibly with input from the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance.
[July 5, 2002, 7:57]
Is roaming coming to Wi-Fi?
News In Japan, Multimedia Mobile Access Communication Systems (MMAC) has also gotten a head start on the IEEE. He's attending a meeting this week of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in Monterey, California, held to discuss how...
[September 11, 2002, 8:10]
802.11g approved, 802.11n is next in line
News As expected, the Standards Board Review Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) approved the 802.11g specification as a standard. IEEE has informally assigned a group to investigate what needs and markets the next...
[June 13, 2003, 10:49]
Faster Wi-Fi standard given green light
News The Standards Board Review Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) approved the 802.11g specification as a standard in mid-June. But the issues were resolved when the IEEE released updated versions of the...
[July 9, 2003, 7:34]
Rival Wi-Fi standard claims more speed
News Friday was the deadline for submissions to the IEEE of suggested features for the next Wi-Fi standard -- a deadline the group did not miss. There are differences between the two proposals, which are scheduled to be discussed by the IEEE group at a...
[August 17, 2004, 15:50]
Intel touts a new kind of PC
News Intel also hopes to ramp up wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b) for the consumer market beginning later this year. For one thing, Intel is intent on pushing an emerging connection platform called USB 2.0 for devices such as Web cams, storage devices and...
[April 25, 2001, 6:17]
Comdex 2001: The battle is on for faster wireless
News Tech company executives say the IEEE has ruled out the Texas Instruments proposal, which reached speeds of 22mbps, and is trying to drum up the required number of votes to ratify Intersil's technology, which reaches up to 54mbps.
[November 15, 2001, 12:02]
ZigBee product flood defies sceptics
News Their menu of technology choices consists of IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4 (either with or without ZigBee), Bluetooth, and even more far off wireless technologies like UWB. ZigBee is a commercial standard, built on top of the IEEE's 802.15.4 standard...
[September 14, 2005, 14:15]
IEEE 802.1x Authentication Client in Microsoft Windows for Wireless and Wired Networks
White Papers Learn more about IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN networking and its related authentication technologies for a Windows environment at http://www.microsoft.com/wifi/. Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 families include built-in...
[May 30, 2004, 0:00]
