The Future's So Bright…
Rather than spending too much time imagining the future, we will get on with the task of understanding today's WLAN standards. Even though researchers are busy pushing back the wireless frontier, it's not likely that products using their breakthroughs will be available for a while, whereas the existing IEEE 802.11 standards are already quite a lot to wrap our minds around, are important today, and are likely to remain important for a rather long time to come. Despite the long evolutionary road ahead of WLAN standards, the current generation will probably have a long half-life, and an understanding of how these standards operate should be very useful to end users and administrators alike.
What about Faster Speeds?
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