Other Regulatory Bodies
Wireless LAN equipment use is regulated outside the Americas and Europe, too. Does each country have its own set of regulations? Not necessarily; a country might have its own or it can adhere to all or parts of the regulations of a larger, more established regulatory body. Countries that use a common set of RF regulations are known as a regulatory domain.
For example, a Cisco wireless device that is compatible with the American regulatory domain can also be used in Canada, many Latin and South American countries, and in the Philippines.
Cisco manufactures wireless devices for use in at least 13 different regulatory domains. The basic wireless LAN operation is identical in all domains, but the frequency ranges, channels, ...
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