Wi-Fi vs. 802.11
Wi-Fi is a subset of the 802.11 accepted that is managed by the Wi-Fi
Alliance. Because the 802.11 accepted is so large, and the action appropriate
to amend the accepted can booty awhile (it's run by a committee), about all of
the above wireless accessories manufacturers absitively they bare a smaller,
added active accumulation committed to advancement interoperability amid
vendors. This resulted in the conception of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
The Wi-Fi Alliance assures that all
articles with a Wi-Fi-certified logo assignment together. This way if any
ambiguity in the 802.11 accepted crops up, the Wi-Fi Alliance defines the
"right thing" to do. It additionally allows vendors to apparatus
important subsets of abstract standards (standards that accept not yet been
ratified). The best acclaimed archetype of this is Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
or "draft" 802.11n equipment.
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