The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved a new wireless specification that could be used in devices to deliver tri-band networking and support Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) ...

i’m totally going to do this, and i think i just scored an extra direct tv dish too. ..make a dish into a highly directional antenna for the very popular IEEE 802.11 wireless networking. The resulting ...

Imagine a technology that would eliminate the tangled bundle of wires at the back of your PC. WiGig, a very fast, short-range networking technology that operates in the 60Ghz band has the potential to ...

Mesh networking has been hyped as the next big thing in wireless, but the current IEEE 802.11 standard does not define it. That hasn’t stopped vendors from trotting out proprietary mesh gear to meet ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Standards Association has announced the publication of the fourth revision to the 15 year-old 802.11 Wireless LAN Standard, upon ...

IEEE's wireless security amendment adds stronger encryption, authentication, and key management strategies that go a long way toward guaranteeing data and system security. With the falling cost and ...

The wireless toolkit for electronics design engineers widened considerably with the emergence of the 802.11n draft standard. Thanks to its performance benefits, 802.11n will expand the range of ...

The most recent version of the IEEE’s wireless local-area network (WLAN) standard, 802.11ac, uses the 5-GHz unlicensed band and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to significantly boost data speeds ...

Li-Fi is here to join Wi-Fi as a physical networking layer. Li-Fi is here to join Wi-Fi as a physical networking layer. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, ...

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IEEE 802.1X is a standard that defines how to provide authentication for devices that connect with other devices on local area networks (LANs). It provides a mechanism by which network switches and ...