Wireless Type?

[hennessy1]

What is this IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3u, 802.1X, 802.11i, 802.11e? Are these new or am I extremely late to the party on that I never heard of these standards before? Give me some incite please.

 

[JackMDS]

802 are variety of Network standards not necessarily relates to Wireless.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IEEE_802_standards.html

http://standards.ieee.org/standardspress/