IEEE 802.. What is it, and why should I care?
The early days of networking only saw wireline networks (if you don't count the old AT&T Long lines microwave backbone that at one time crossed the United States)
And the fact that ethernet won out over IBM's Token Ring is not as important.. what is important is that industry understood the value of Standards development.
They also understood that old Yogi Berea-like adage "..the best thing about Standards is there are so many of them".. But to explain more about this catchy phrase would take too long.
In summary, the Standards used in the vast majority of the many Networks on the planet (both wireless & wired) for the most part all come from the IEEE Standards Association's IEEE 802 Working Group.
The IEEE 802 Standards working group is pretty much the progenitor of most every single unlicensed wireless innovation to come to market. First was WiFi (802.11a, b, e, etc etc)
The 802.11 Standard
The 802.11 Amendments are so numerous they have in the last few years started using 2 letters instead of 1. (802.11z--the DLS amendment--gave way to 802.11aa, ab, ac.. etc)
The 802.22 Standard
Did you ever wonder why one of the biggest users of wireless Spectrum in almost any country on earth, never got into the 2 way communications business?
No? Well, you ask, why did the Television Broadcast Industry never want to do two-way communications.. The simple answer is that this was not the business they where in. What they did instead was get access to and use of the best "beach front" spectrum between DC and day light.. and almost for free to boot..
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