802.11A Standar

IEEE Std 802.11a-1999(R2003)
(Supplement to IEEE Std 802.11-1999)

[Adopted by ISO/IEC and redesignated as ISO/IEC 8802-11:1999/Amd 1:2000(E)]

Supplement to IEEE Standard for Information technology— Telecommunications and information exchange between systems— Local and metropolitan area networks— Specific requirements

Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer(PHY) specifications High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band
Adopted by the ISO/IEC and redesignated as ISO/IEC 8802-11:1999/Amd 1:2000(E)

Sponsor

LAN/MAN Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society

Reaffirmed 12 June 2003 IEEE-SA Standards Board

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