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802.11 IEEE Wireless Networking Standards

Thursday January 13, 2005
| Definition | 802.11 is the generic name of a family of standards for wireless networking. 802.11 standards define rules for communication on wireless local area networks (WLANs). This page describes all of the 802.11X standards, including the popular 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g.
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