Has 802.11g been fully ratitified?

[pookguy88]

I know this may be old news, but has 802.11g been fully ratified by IEEE yet?
or is it still in draft stage?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: pookguy88
I know this may be old news, but has 802.11g been fully ratified by IEEE yet?
or is it still in draft stage?

Yes, it was and now they are working on next standard, I believe "i".

 

[ktwebb]

.11i is just a security upgrade to existing standards, a b and g.

.11g has been certified for quite some time. Go to wi-fi.com to browse a list of certified gear by that consortium. They list the gear they have certified for interoperability. If your in the store you'll see a Wi-Fi certified label with .11g listed. Doesn't mean non labeled gear won't work. Just means it hasn't run through a battery of interoperability tests.

 

[JackMDS]

802.11g is a Ratified standard. You do not see it too much associated with the term WIFI because Standard and WIFI is not the same thing.

On WIFI.

WIFI is a certification process. A company gives its Hardware to WECA and they test and certifies (or not). It costs a nice sum of money, and it delays the product introduction into the market. As a result most of the inexpensive Wireless Network Hardware companies do not take part in this process.

For cooperate setting, insuring interoperability is very important. You do not want people to get stuck and not be able to Log On to the Networks when they are roaming between buildings and various corporate sites.

802.11i Within a year.

It would be the same ?Speed? as 802.11g, the main change would relate to security.

Quote from Infoworld:

"The 802.11i draft now circulating is for a security algorithm called Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. Developed with the help of some of the encryption experts that exposed WEP's vulnerabilities, TKIP, like WEP, is based on RC4 encryption--but implemented in a different way that addresses those vulnerabilities, Eaton says. Among other things it generates new encryption keys for every 10 kilobytes of data transmitted".

Down the line 2-3 years from now there is a talk about 802.11h that should go to about 200Mb/sec.

Given Wireless loses it means that it would function at 80-100Mb/sec. like the current 100Mb/sec. Cable Network.

 

[mboy]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
802.11g is a Ratified standard. You do not see it too much associated with the term WIFI because Standard and WIFI is not the same thing.

On WIFI.

WIFI is a certification process. A company gives its Hardware to WECA and they test and certifies (or not). It costs a nice sum of money, and it delays the product introduction into the market. As a result most of the inexpensive Wireless Network Hardware companies do not take part in this process.

For cooperate setting, insuring interoperability is very important. You do not want people to get stuck and not be able to Log On to the Networks when they are roaming between buildings and various corporate sites.

802.11i Within a year.

It would be the same ?Speed? as 802.11g, the main change would relate to security.

Quote from Infoworld:

"The 802.11i draft now circulating is for a security algorithm called Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. Developed with the help of some of the encryption experts that exposed WEP's vulnerabilities, TKIP, like WEP, is based on RC4 encryption--but implemented in a different way that addresses those vulnerabilities, Eaton says. Among other things it generates new encryption keys for every 10 kilobytes of data transmitted".

Down the line 2-3 years from now there is a talk about 802.11h that should go to about 200Mb/sec.

Given Wireless loses it means that it would function at 80-100Mb/sec. like the current 100Mb/sec. Cable Network.

And doesn't send the key in cleat text within the header I hope