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.

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 ...

With interest around the IEEE 802.11g draft specification beginning to increase, questions are already being raised as to how systems complying with this spec will interoperate with existing 802.11b ...

Wi-Fi systems enable products from different manufacturers to work together. This is made possible by international open systems, which no one manufacturer owns. All gain a commercial benefit by ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE), the group responsible for setting standards in the networking industry, on Thursday approved the final specification for 802.11g, ...

If your wireless LAN applications require high performance, then you’re probably facing a decision on whether to use 802.11a or wait for 802.11g. Before making the choice, you need to fully understand ...

The lack of a final standard hasn’t prevented an early crop of 802.11g wireless LAN products (54M bit/sec, 2.4-GHz frequency) from coming to market. We obtained seven prestandard access points and put ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE), the group responsible for setting standards in the networking industry, approved a new and final draft standard for 802.11g wireless ...

With the 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 11g Access Point, users can access network resources, the Internet, and e-mail at speeds up to 54 Mbps and at distances up to 100 meters (328 feet). That's almost ...

Broadcom has introduced a Wi-Fi chipset that it says can speed the performance of 802.11g networks to 125 megabits per second (Mbps), potentially creating new opportunities for routing high-bandwidth ...

To the uninitiated, the evolution of wireless LAN standards might look like an alphabetic soap opera. PC cards and access point hubs based on the 11Mbit/sec. 802.11b WLAN standard were just moving ...

The Reviewmeister is a wireless LAN junkie, so we couldn’t wait to get our hands on the new crop of 802.11g wireless LAN products. Heck, we don’t care if the standard hasn’t been finalized. If there ...