Intersil Corporation today announced the industry’s first chip set designed to support the IEEE 802.11g draft standard. The Intersil PRISM GT chip set, operating in the 2.4 Ghz band, will enable data transmission speeds of up to 54 Mbps with backwards compatibility to 802.11b infrastructures. This news comes roughly two and a half months after… Continue Reading
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802.1X Authenticates 802.11 Wireless
Current authentication in the 802.11 standard is focused more on wireless LAN connectivity than on verifying user or station identity. For enterprise wireless security to scale to hundreds or thousands of users, the current method of authentication must be replaced by an authentication framework that supports centralized user authentication. Via [nwfusion.com]… Continue Reading