802.11

802.11 In 1997, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) created the first WLAN standard. They called it 802.11 after the name of the group formed to oversee its development. Unfortunately, 802.11 only supported a maximum network bandwidth 2 Mbps, too slow for most applications. 802.11b IEEE expanded on the original 802.11 standard in July 1999,…