EDGE short for Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution and also known as Enhanced GPRS EGPRS is a standard of technology in wireless telecommunications introduced in 2003 that increases data transmission rates and improves data transmission reliability in GSM-enabled mobile phones. It is usually classified as a second and three-quarters generation...

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone NTT DoCoMo Inc. where DoCoMo" is shorthand for Do Communications Over the Mobile Network" as well as a play on dokomo the Japanese word for everywhere is the most prominent wireless telecommunications operator in Japan with more than 50 million subscribers. In August...

General Packet Radio Service GPRS is a second and a half generation 2.5G packet-switched Mobile Data Service developed exclusively for users of Global System for Mobile Communications GSM and IS-136 mobile phones and integrated into GSM Release 97 and newer releases. Through the use of otherwise unused time division multiple access TDMA...

Global Positioning System GPS officially named NAVSTAR GPS is a fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS developed by the United States Department of Defense and accessible as a public good to civilians. It enables a GPS receiver to determine its location speed direction of speed and time by making use of a constellation of...

GSM which stands for Global System for Mobile Communications although originally Groupe Spé cial Mobile is a second generation 2G Mobile Data Service for wireless telecommunications. Development of GSM was initiated and promoted in 1982 by the GSM Association a group started by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations...

Centrino is a platform-marketing initiative developed by the company Intel. It is a label used for a set of technologies for the central processing unit CPU mainboard chipset and wireless network interface the usage of which according to Intel would provide broad wireless network interoperability better performance and a longer battery life....

Code division multiple access CDMA formerly known as Interim Standard 95 IS-95 is a second generation 2G air interface modulation technique used in wireless communication developed by Qualcomm and enhanced by Ericsson. It employs spread-spectrum technology meaning the coded signal has a significantly higher bandwidth than the data being transmitted....

Bluetooth also known as IEEE 802.15.1 refers to short-range communications technology for wireless personal area networks PAN . The specification was developed in 1994 by Sven Mattisson and Jaap Haartsen both employed by Ericsson Mobile Platforms in Sweden. It was formalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group Bluetooth SIG a consortium formed...

802.16 also referred to as IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN or WiMAX" which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access" is a family of standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards. The workgroup a unit of...

802.1X referred to in full as IEEE 802.1X is a standard under the IEEE 802 group of protocols maintained by the IEEE 802 LAN MAN Standards Committee LMSC . Based on the Extensible Authentication Protocol EAP; RFC 2284 the 802.1X standard was developed for port-based Network Access Control and for use in closed wireless access points in order...

802.11n referred to in full as IEEE 802.11n is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE LAN MAN Standards Committee which governs methods of transmission over wireless networks. For the sake of the acceleration of the 802.11n development process as well as the promotion of...

802.11i referred to in full as IEEE 802.11i is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 used to govern wireless networking transmission methods. It specified security mechanisms for wireless networks. Original versions of 802.11 featured weak...

802.11g referred to in full as IEEE 802.11g is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 which governs wireless networking transmission methods. It was ratified in 2003. Along with 802.11b it is the most widely used amendment in the 802.11 family....

802.11e referred to in full as IEEE 802.11e is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 a standard that allows devices to connect to a wireless local area network WLAN . It was created by a Task Group called the IEEE TGe. It features modifications...

802.11b referred to in full as IEEE 802.11b is the first widely accepted wireless networking standard. It was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 and ratified in 1999 the same year as its preceding 802.11 amendment 802.11a. It extended throughput to up to 11 Mbps on a 2.4 GHz...

802.11a referred to in full as IEEE 802.11a is the first wireless networking standard ever created. It was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 and ratified in 1999. 802.11a operates in 5 GHz band which protects it from interference from external sources. It features a maximum raw...

802.11 referred to in full as IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LAN MAN Standards Committee IEEE 802 to govern wireless networking transmission methods. It was developed for computer communication in wireless local area networks WLAN in the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz public spectrum bands. The...