Wireless network
Wireless networks are telephone or computer networks that use radio as their carrier or physical layer. - Wireless LAN - local area networks
- Wireless PAN - personal area networks
- GSM - Global standard for digital mobile communication, common in most countries except South Korea and Japan
- PCS - Personal communication system - not a single standard, this covers both CDMA and GSM networks operating at 1900 MHz in North America
- Mobitex - pager-based network in the USA and Canada, built by Ericsson, now used by PDAs such as the Palm VII and Research in Motion BlackBerry
- GPRS - General Packet Radio Service, upgraded packet-based service within the GSM framework, gives higher data rates and always-on service
- UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone Service (3rd generation cell phone network), based on the W-CDMA radio access network
- AX.25 - amateur packet radio
- NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephony, analog system originally developed by PTTs in the Nordic countries
- AMPS - America Mobile Phone System
- D-AMPS - Digital AMPS, also known as TDMA
TutorialWireless Networking Tutorial Some research institutes University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of PennsylvaniaMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyHelsinki University of TechnologyRoyal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) Some companies Handsets, network equipment*Nokia*Motorola*Ericsson (network equipment only)*Siemens AG*Sony Ericsson (handsets only)* http://wlab.de Service provider*Boingo Some communities RedLibre FreeNetworks Personal Telco Some ideas Warchalking |
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