The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ratified the 802.11g standard, providing a performance boost from peak transmission rates of 11 Mbps to 54 Mbps for wireless LANs operating in 2.4 GHz spectrum. The added transmission speed gives 2.4 GHz wireless networks the ability to serve up to four to five times more users than they now do. A new amendment to the specification allows 802.11g units to fall back to speeds of 11 Mbps, so 802.11b and 802.11g devices can coexist in the same network. The Wi-Fi Alliance will be announcing shortly the first round 802.11g product certifications.http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/80211gfinal.htmlhttp://www.wi-fi.org
IEEE Approves 802.11g Standard
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You just read about Wi-Fi. Here is what it replaced:
Metricom Ricochet served 1994–2001. What ultimately replaced it?
Metricom Ricochet a mesh of pager-sized shoulder radios talking to pole-top microcell repeaters, delivering ~28-128 kbit/s wireless internet across a handful of cities. Its job passed to Wi-Fi — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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