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We don’t believe that 802.11a will prove analogous to Betamax. The 802.11a radio spec provides a number of advantages over 802.11b for businesses, which more time and usage will make obvious. At first ...

If your wireless LAN applications require high performance, then you’re probably facing a decision on whether to use 802.11a or wait for 802.11g. Before making the choice, you need to fully understand ...

Synad goes roaming with chipset for 802.11a/b wireless networksHarry YeatesReading fabless chip start-up Synad Technologies has announced the details of Mercury5G, its dual-mode 802.11a/b chipset for ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY -- The recent fight between the University of Texas and its students on the 2.4 GHz battle field may be over, but competition for the limited spectrum used by two wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) ...

At long last, there is an 802.11a-capable Wi-Fi phone on the market. An enterprise-class one. And with Wi-Fi Protected Access and WPA2 security, no less. SpectraLink, the longtime pioneer in local ...

Handy new dual-band wireless adapter card for laptops from SMC that runs both 802.11b and its faster cousin, 802.11a. Dual-band cards like this one are perfect for anyone who wants to be able to ...

Munich, Germany — Infineon Technologies and Agere Systems have combined forces to develop 802.11a/g compliant devices. The wireless LAN chipsets, software and reference designs should start sampling ...

When the IEEE ratified the 802.11a and 802.11b wireless networking communications standards in 1999, its goal was to create a standards-based technology that could span multiple physical encoding ...

By contrast, 802.11a networks will support eight to 12 channels, depending on vendor implementation, each with up to 54M-bit/sec capacity. Generally, spreading user access across different channels ...