Glossary
A single-wire (plus ground) communications protocol.
A 1-Wire interface master controller.
10-Gigabit Ethernet
Third-generation mobile telephone protocols that support higher data rates, for non-voice communications such as multimedia and Internet access.
Third Generation Partnership Project, a collaboration of cell phone technology standards bodies. www.3gpp.org/.
4th Generation mobile telephony standard with a potential speed of up to 1 gigabit per second for data transfer.
Upcoming 5th Generation mobile telephony standard that can potentially transfer data at up to 20 gigabit per second.
IEEE standard that specifies medium-access and physical-layer specifications for 1Mbps and 2Mbps wireless connectivity between fixed, portable, and moving stations within a local area.
The IEEE standard that governs the deployment of 5GHz OFDM systems. It specifies the implementation of the physical layer for wireless UNII b.
IEEE 802.11ac is a wireless networking standard in the 802.11 family (which is marketed under the brand name Wi-Fi), on the 5 GHz band. The specification has multi-station throughput of at least 1 gigabit per second and single-link throughput of at least
An international IEEE standard for WLAN networks, operating at 2.4GHz and providing a maximum data transfer rate of 11Mbps.
A proposed standard that describes a wireless networking method for a WLAN that operates in the 2.4GHz radio band (ISM: Industrial Scientific Medical frequency band). It transfers data at up to 54Mbps.
An IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that increases transmission speeds to 600 Mbps and works in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands (see dual-band router).
