As 802.11a products began shipping months ago, more and more companies have been taking advantage of 802.11a’s superior performance. 802.11a radios transmit at 5GHz and send data up to 54Mbps using ...

Broadcom Corporation, a provider of silicon solutions enabling broadband communications, announced it is shipping the industry's first standards-based technology that delivers significantly better ...

LONDON — WLAN chip specialist Synad Technologies has demonstrated its Mercury5G dual mode chip set that complies with 802.11 a, b and g standards. The company also said it is in “serious discussions” ...

Researchers at Belgium's KU Leuven discovered a fundamental design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that gives attackers a way to trick victims into connecting with a less secure wireless ...

Wi-Fi is everywhere and we can’t really do without it. But the current-gen Wi-Fi standard is limited to data transfer between devices, and with every new iteration, we just see better speeds and ...

WLANs have become commonplace in corporate, home, and retail settings, but that doesn’t mean that the standards that govern them have settled down. 2003 has already seen the standardization of 802.11g ...

A long-awaited standard for wireless LANs that offers more carrying capacity than the current IEEE 802.11b specification while using the same frequencies won final approval Thursday morning. The new ...

Apparently, there are several ways users will be able to roam securely and seamlessly among access points in 802.11 wireless LANs. The 802.11i security standard, ratified in June, makes a couple of ...