History of Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is short form of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi). Wireless Fidelity is a Wireless Networking Technology which allows to mobiles, ipads,Computers,Game Controllers,Phones and many other devices to communicate on a wireless signal. Wireless Fidelity Signal is a high frequency radio signal. Wifi invented in 1991 by NCR Corporation AT&T in Nieuwegein, The first wireless brand comes in market WaveLAN with 1Mbps & 2Mbps speed. WLAN stands for Wireless Local Area Network. Inventor of Wifi was Vic Hayes and Vic Hayes has been know as a "Father of Wi-Fi". Vic Hayes and his team designed IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) , 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. The starting and the first version of 802.11 is released in 1997 and generate upto 2Mbits speeds but in future with the progress of science in 1999 they are introduced 802.11b with high 11Mbits speed.
The Wi-Fi setup contain one or more than one Access Point and more than one Clients. Access Points Broadcasts (Service Set Identifier) its SSID through Packets which are called Beacons. They are continuesly broadcasts every 100ms. Wi-fi is a major source to transfer data from on device to another device with radio signals.
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