Wi-Fi has become the preferred means for connecting to the internet at home, in the office, in hotels and at airports. Increasingly, Wi-Fi also provides internet access for remote communities where it is deployed by volunteers in community-based networks, by operators in hotspots' and by municipalities in hotzones'. This book traces the global success of Wi-Fi to the landmark change in radio spectrum policy by the US FCC in 1985, the initiative by NCR Corporation to start development of Wireless-LANs and the drive for an open standard IEEE 802.11, released in 1997. It also singles out and...
Wi-Fi has become the preferred means for connecting to the internet at home, in the office, in hotels and at airports. Increasingly, Wi-Fi also provid...
