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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Beating WLANs into submission, Part 1: Airtime management

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Beating WLANs into submission, Part 1: Airtime management

Joanie Wexler By Joanie Wexler
The IEEE ratified the bare bones Wi-Fi standard in 1997. Since then, equipment vendors and various 802.11 working groups have been beating it into submission with formal extensions and proprietary capabilities to render it a business-grade network. Much of the ongoing work relates to controlling the shared airwaves in ways that prevent big transmissions from any one client from squeezing out other clients' traffic. Read full story

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley.

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