CWNA Chapter 5 – IEEE 802.11 Standards

My Notes from chapter 5 of the CWNA study guide Original IEEE 802.11 standard The first WLAN standard published. Defined by IEEE at the Physical and MAC layers of the OSI model. The PHY task group worked in conjunction with the MAC task group to define the original 802.11 standard. The PHY task group defined …

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CWNA Chapter 1 – Wireless Standards, Organizations and Fundamentals

My Notes from chapter 1 of the CWNA study guide Standard Organisations Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Regulatory body for the United States for Radio, TV, wire, satellite and cable. Set Rules for what users can do with wireless around: Frequency Bandwidth Maximum power of the intentional radiator (IR) Max equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) Use …

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