Wireless network

Wireless networks are telephone or computer networks that use radio as their carrier or physical layer.

Related Topics:
Wireless - Telephone - Computer network - Radio - Carrier - Physical layer

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• Wireless MAN - metropolitan area network
• Wireless LAN - local area networks
• Wireless PAN - personal area networks
• GSM - Global standard for digital mobile communication, common in most countries except South Korea and Japan
• PCS - Personal communication system - not a single standard, this covers both CDMA and GSM networks operating at 1900 MHz in North America
• Mobitex - pager-based network in the USA and Canada, built by Ericsson, now used by PDAs such as the Palm VII and Research in Motion BlackBerry
• GPRS - General Packet Radio Service, upgraded packet-based service within the GSM framework, gives higher data rates and always-on service
• UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone Service (3rd generation cell phone network), based on the W-CDMA radio access network
• AX.25 - amateur packet radio
• NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephony, analog system originally developed by PTTs in the Nordic countries
• AMPS - America Mobile Phone System
• D-AMPS - Digital AMPS, also known as TDMA

Tutorial

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• Wireless Networking Tutorials

Some research institutes

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• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Helsinki University of Technology
• Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Stanford University
• Malaysia University of Science and Technology
• UMIST

Some companies

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• Handsets, network equipment
• Nokia
• Motorola
• Ericsson (network equipment only)
• Siemens AG
• Sony Ericsson (handsets only)
• http://wlab.de
• Service provider
• Boingo

Some communities

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• NYCwireless
• RedLibre
• FreeNetworks
• Personal Telco

Some ideas

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• Warchalking
• All about MESH-Technology (German language)
 
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