Connectivity is the conduit enabling today’s manufacturers to fully capitalize on the growing array of emerging technologies. Of course, standards are crucial for connectivity to work across an array ...

A new IEEE working group plans to standardize the way session handoffs take place between heterogeneous types of 802-based networks. The 802.21 working group is slated to officially begin work in ...

The most common types of wireless LANs today support the 802.11b standard. Although faster 802.11a equipment has been available for some time, vendors of enterprise-class WLAN equipment — with more ...

Our life is surrounded by internet services and it’s hard to imagine not being connected to the web one way or another. It’s also worth thinking about technologies such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which ...

“People increasingly judge the quality of a network by wireless access performance. If users experience a slow Wi-Fi network, or they can't connect to it, or they keep losing the connection, their ...

The latest wireless networking specification is one step closer to becoming a standard after an industry group announced Friday the approval of the specification's most recent version. Known as ...

The best known of theseare the 802.11 standards regarding wireless LANs, but there are also wireless networkingstandards regarding Personal Area Networks (PANs) and fixed location Wide AreaNetworks ...

Emerging wireless standards will enable any person or object to act as a relay or access point to the network, creating more fluid, versatile communications on the battlefield. New crop of IEEE 802 ...

It's a nice thought that every Wi-Fi wireless card will work with every Wi-Fi network. After all, that's what standards are all about. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case -- there's no ...

But the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has finally ratified the 802.11n standard. It happened last Thursday, and the IEEE said it will publish the finalized amendment -- all ...

The IEEE 802.16 Ethernet standard for wireless metropolitan-area networks (MANs) is opening up a new area of communications, though no one knows what shape the market will eventually take. Even though ...

PISIEEE, the world's largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced the formation of the IEEE 802.24 Smart Grid Technical Advisory Group (TAG). The ...