Wireless LANs ( 802.11 b)
Steve Steinke · 2003
Although companies have been shipping WLAN products-such as the access points that bridge the wireless with the wired network and the cards that reside within laptops and handheld units-for several years, customers haven&s;t had a 100 percent guarantee that products they purchased would conform to the eventual standard. Unless a company purchased all their gear from a single vendor, they couldn&s;t have complete peace of mind that everything would work together.