User's Manual

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Issue Date: 29/07/2002

This file contains the definitions required to use AES (Rijndael) in C.

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Intel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Connection Utility contains software licensed from Devicescape

"Odd Button" Artistic License

Portions of this software contain the standard version of "Odd Button" licensed under the

Artistic License. The source code for "Odd Button" may be found online at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oddbutton.

Glossary of Terms

Term

Definition

802.11

The 802.11 standard refers to a family of specifications developed by

the IEEE for wireless LAN technology. The 802.11 specifies an over-

the-air interface between a wireless client and a base station or

between two wireless clients and provides 1 or 2 Mbps transmission

in the 2.4 GHz band using either frequency hopping spread spectrum

(FHSS) or direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS).

802.11a

The 802.11a standard specifies a maximum data transfer rate of 54

Mbps and an operating frequency of 5 GHz. The 802.11a standard

uses the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

transmission method. Additionally, the 802.11a standard supports

802.11 features such as WEP encryption for security.

802.11b

802.11b is an extension to 802.11 that applies to wireless networks

and provides 11 Mbps transmission (with a fallback to 5.5, 2 and 1

Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11b uses only DSSS. Throughput

data rate 5+ Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band.