wireless technology

Wireless Technology

Wireless technology in a variety of forms is an area of electronics that is developing and growing particularly fast. Wirless LAN (WLAN) technology including Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), Bluetooth, Ultra-Wide Band (UWB), Wimax, Zigbee, and more are all growing and finding their own market areas. As a result wireless technology is being more widely used and found in many new applications.

Wireless network refers to any type of computer network that is wireless, and is commonly associated with a telecommunications network whose interconnections between nodes is implemented without the use of wires.[1] Wireless telecommunications networks are generally implemented with some type of remote information transmission system that uses electromagnetic waves, such as radio waves, for the carrier and this implementation usually takes place at the physical level or "layer" of the network.

To support networking solutions that consumer electronic devices and appliances can plug into, Microsoft is working on a range of wireless technologies to enable a robust set of user scenarios for local area networks (LANs), personal area networks (PANs), and wide area networks (WANs).

Windows provides extensive Native 802.11 support, which is the widely adopted standard for high-speed networking across wireless local area networks (WLANs).

Windows includes built-in support for Bluetooth wireless technology. Compatible hardware complies with the H:2 (USB) HCI specification for Bluetooth wireless technology. The hardware vendor does not have to provide a separate driver. Bluetooth L2CAP protocol drivers should use KMDF or a device-class-specific driver model such as AVStream. Drivers for RFCOMM devices should use UMDF.