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802.11 referred to in full as IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 to govern wireless networking transmission methods. It was developed for computer communication in wireless local area networks WLAN in the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz public spectrum bands. The...
802.11a referred to in full as IEEE 802.11a is the first wireless networking standard ever created. It was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 and ratified in 1999. 802.11a operates in 5 GHz band which protects it from interference from external sources. It features a maximum raw...
802.11b referred to in full as IEEE 802.11b is the first widely accepted wireless networking standard. It was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 and ratified in 1999 the same year as its preceding 802.11 amendment 802.11a. It extended throughput to up to 11 Mbps on a 2.4 GHz...
802.11e referred to in full as IEEE 802.11e is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 a standard that allows devices to connect to a wireless local area network WLAN . It was created by a Task Group called the IEEE TGe. It features modifications...
802.11g referred to in full as IEEE 802.11g is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 which governs wireless networking transmission methods. It was ratified in 2003. Along with 802.11b it is the most widely used amendment in the 802.11 family....
802.11i referred to in full as IEEE 802.11i is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 used to govern wireless networking transmission methods. It specified security mechanisms for wireless networks. Original versions of 802.11 featured weak...
802.11n referred to in full as IEEE 802.11n is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE LAN MAN Standards Committee which governs methods of transmission over wireless networks. For the sake of the acceleration of the 802.11n development process as well as the promotion of...
802.1X referred to in full as IEEE 802.1X is a standard under the IEEE 802 group of protocols maintained by the IEEE 802 LAN MAN Standards Committee LMSC . Based on the Extensible Authentication Protocol EAP; RFC 2284 the 802.1X standard was developed for port-based Network Access Control and for use in closed wireless access points in order...
802.16 also referred to as IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN or WiMAX" which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access" is a family of standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards. The workgroup a unit of...
Bluetooth also known as IEEE 802.15.1 refers to short-range communications technology for wireless personal area networks PAN . The specification was developed in 1994 by Sven Mattisson and Jaap Haartsen both employed by Ericsson Mobile Platforms in Sweden. It was formalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group Bluetooth SIG a consortium formed...
Code division multiple access CDMA formerly known as Interim Standard 95 IS-95 is a second generation 2G air interface modulation technique used in wireless communication developed by Qualcomm and enhanced by Ericsson. It employs spread-spectrum technology meaning the coded signal has a significantly higher bandwidth than the data being transmitted....
Centrino is a platform-marketing initiative developed by the company Intel. It is a label used for a set of technologies for the central processing unit CPU mainboard chipset and wireless network interface the usage of which according to Intel would provide broad wireless network interoperability better performance and a longer battery life....
GSM which stands for Global System for Mobile Communications although originally Groupe Spé cial Mobile is a second generation 2G Mobile Data Service for wireless telecommunications. Development of GSM was initiated and promoted in 1982 by the GSM Association a group started by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations...
Global Positioning System GPS officially named NAVSTAR GPS is a fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS developed by the United States Department of Defense and accessible as a public good to civilians. It enables a GPS receiver to determine its location speed direction of speed and time by making use of a constellation of...
General Packet Radio Service GPRS is a second and a half generation 2.5G packet-switched Mobile Data Service developed exclusively for users of Global System for Mobile Communications GSM and IS-136 mobile phones and integrated into GSM Release 97 and newer releases. Through the use of otherwise unused time division multiple access TDMA...
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone NTT DoCoMo Inc. where DoCoMo" is shorthand for Do Communications Over the Mobile Network" as well as a play on dokomo the Japanese word for everywhere is the most prominent wireless telecommunications operator in Japan with more than 50 million subscribers. In August...
EDGE short for Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution and also known as Enhanced GPRS EGPRS is a standard of technology in wireless telecommunications introduced in 2003 that increases data transmission rates and improves data transmission reliability in GSM-enabled mobile phones. It is usually classified as a second and three-quarters generation...
WiMAX which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access is a subset of standard interoperable implementations within the IEEE 802.16 family of standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards. The workgroup a unit of the IEEE...
WEP which could stand for either Wired Equivalent Privacy or Wireless Encryption Protocol is a security scheme employed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks since the standard s ratification in September 1999. WEP was part of the IEEE 802.11 standard and its amendments up until IEEE 802.11i...
WAP which stands for wireless access point is a device used for the formation of a wireless network through connection of wireless communication devices. It often connects to a wired network enabling it to transmit data between wired and wireless devices. A larger roaming" -enabled network may be formed by linking together several WAPs....
WLAN which stands for Wireless Local Area Network is the technology of networking of a number of computers with each other without requiring the usage of wires. Due to a number of WLAN s advantages such as ease of installation convenience deployment mobility expandability productivity and cost the popularity of WLAN has increased among home...
Wardriving is a wireless networking term that refers to the event when a person in a moving vehicle with a Wi-Fi equipped computer like a laptop or a personal digital assistant PDA roams around a given location to search for Wi-Fi wireless networks. This instance is comparable to the use of a radio scanner or to DXing distancing which is when...
Warchalking is a wireless networking term that refers to the practice of drawing symbols normally using chalk as a medium in public places to demarcate or advertise a Wi-Fi wireless network that is open to the public. The term was spawned as an analogy to the term wardriving which refers to the practice of navigating a given location...
1x is third generation 3G protocol although some may consider it as 2.5 or 2.75G technology meaning it provides some but not all of the benefits of 3G. In its full designation CDMA2000 1xRTT CDMA" stands for code division multiple access" while 1xRTT" stands for 1 times Radio Transmission Technology. This...
1G which stands for first generation refers to the first generation of wireless telecommunication technology more popularly known as cellphones. A set of wireless standards developed in the 1980 s 1G technology replaced 0G technology which featured mobile radio telephones and such technologies as Mobile Telephone System MTS Advanced...
2G refers to second generation wireless telecommunication technology. While its predecessor 1G made use of analog radio signals 2G uses digital radio signals. Based on what type of multiplexing the process of combining multiple digital data streams into one signal is employed 2G technologies may be categorized by whether they are based on time...
1xEV-DV which is short for CDMA2000 1xEV-DV is a third generation 3G standard developed to compete against the Evolution-Data Optimized CDMA2000 1xEV-DO standard. It was an innovation of a number of cellular wireless telecommunication companies such as Nokia Motorola Qualcomm and Lucent. 1x" stands for one time while...
2.5G which stands for second and a half generation is a cellular wireless technology developed in between its predecessor 2G and its successor 3G. 2.5G" is an informal term invented solely for marketing purposes unlike 2G" or 3G" which are officially defined standards based on those defined by the...
3x is the second revision of the Evolution-Data Optimized EV-DO set of mobile telecommunications standards made by the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 3GPP2 . It is also known as TIA-856 Rev B or EV-DO Rev B antecedent to EV-DO Rev 0 and EV-DO Rev A. It is one of several types of the CDMA2000 set of standards its full designation being...
Advanced Mobile Phone System AMPS is a first-generation 1G analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs and introduced in America in 1983 with variants such as Total Access Communication System TACS available in Europe and Japanese Total Access Communication JTAC available in Japan. It uses separate frequencies for every conversation...
AirPort Extreme is the successor of AirPort a wireless local area networking brand introduced by Apple Inc. It was introduced by Apple on January 7 2003. While AirPort was based on the IEEE 802.11b AirPort Extreme was based on the IEEE 802.11g standard and it is compatible with other devices under the 802.11g standard. Another family of AirPort...
MMS which stands for Multimedia Messaging Service is a standard for wireless telecommunications systems developed as an evolution of Short Message Service SMS . It enables the transmission of messages that in addition to just text as included in SMS may include multimedia objects such as audio video images and rich text. MMS along with such...
iDEN which stands for Integrated Digital Enhanced Network is a wireless telecommunications technology which offers the benefits of a trunked radio and a mobile phone to its subscribers. It was developed by Motorola and released in 1994. In comparison to analog cellular and two-way radio systems iDEN is able to place more users in a given spectral...
J2ME which stands for Java 2 Platform Micro Edition is a subset of the Java platform designed by Sun Microsystems as a replacement for PersonalJava. The other two Java platforms are the Standard Edition Java SE and the Enterprise Edition Java EE . J2ME was originally developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 68 and it was developed...
TDMA which stands for time division multiple access is a method of channel access developed specifically for shared medium networks such as radio broadcast. It is a form of time-division multiplexing; however instead of having one transmitter connected to one receiver TDMA systems may connect multiple transmitters to a receiver. Several users...
Symbian is a proprietary operating system for wireless telecommunications succeeding Psion Software s EPOC. Released in 1999 it is owned by a number of companies Nokia with 47.9 of the share Ericsson with 15.6 Sony Ericsson with 13.1 Panasonic with 10.5 Siemens AG with 8.4 and Samsung with 4.5 . Symbian was designed for handheld mobile...
SMS which stands for Short Message Service and is also referred to as text messaging is a cheaper alternative to making phone calls from mobile phone to mobile phone instead sending short messages between them. The 1985 Global System for Mobile communications GSM series of standards included SMS among its standards. The original...

 

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