13 November 2007

What IEEE 802 means?

IEEE has created an associated standard under project 802 for each medium,which was named for the month (February) and the year (1980) of its inception.Each medium has its own standard,which is named based on the 802 project.

Listed below are the medium and the respective standards

Ethernet : IEEE 802.3
Token-passing bus : IEEE 802.4
Token Ring : IEEE 802.5
Metropolitan area networks: IEEE 802.6
Wireless LANs : IEEE 802.11

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