As networked technology has developed, it appears to have thrown off the shackles of cables to a great extent. Most endpoint user devices now come shipped with some form of wireless connectivity already built in, offering us information at our fingertips as we connect to various wireless hotspots on our travels, uttering our mantra to the waiter in the coffee shop, what's the Wi-Fi password? As these devices are from different manufacturers, there was a requirement for a specification to be created that all network devices would adhere to.
Wireless standards are a set of standards that allows devices from different manufacturers to communicate with each other. My focus in this section will be on the IEEE 802.11 wireless standards (or Wi-Fi). Although there are other wireless standards, such as IEEE 802.15 (Bluetooth) and IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX...
