Cirrus Advances 802.11e for the Home
Matthew Peretz,
80211 Planet,
Mar 26, 2002
If you thought it was bad enough deciding between 802.11a and 802.11b, there is a whole alphabet soup waiting to pounce on you in the field of wireless local area networks (wireless LANs). This article introduces you to Cirrus's Whitecap product, which incorporates the 802.11e standard. According to the article, 802.11e adds adds multimedia and Quality of Service (QoS) support to the 802.11 family. Not mentioned in the article, but coming soon, is another variation called 802.11g. This is is a compromise standard, providing 22 megabits/second of bandwidth (faster than 'b' but slower than 'a') which can interoperate with existing 802.11b networks. Again, these are all ways of replacing your ethernet cable - the 'a', 'b', 'e' and 'g' designate different capacities.CRLF
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