When designing a Wi-Fi product, it’s important to keep in mind what channel set you want your product to use because each country allows and disallows different channels for various Wi-Fi operations. In other words, channels that are supported depend on the regulation in each country. Here is a summary of most countries:
In April, ETSI announced new mandatory spectrum sharing requirements for the 2.4 GHz band which will take effect January 2015. Laird’s MSD30AG/SSD30AG, 40NBT Series, WB45NBT, and MSD45N/SSD45N, have all been successfully tested to the new standard. The following is the status on the 10, 20, and 15 series radios:
Laird 10- and 20- Series EN […]
As a result of the growing number of innovative devices equipped with wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee coming to market, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has updated two GHz band standards. Mandatory for market access in Europe, the standards updates are set to take effect in January 2015.
ETSI EN 300 […]
Recently, Network World published an article titled “Old-school Wi-Fi is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says”. The article goes into detail about two Cisco engineers who are proposing standards changes to scale down unnecessary traffic to Wi-Fi channels. According to the article, the early Wi-Fi standards that first made wire-free networking a […]
By: Chris Downey, Product Manager
IEEE 802.15.4 is a standard developed by the IEEE to enable low power, mesh networks. It has seen tremendous use for SCADA, Wireless Sensor Networks, Industrial controls and other industries due to its ability to enable low-power sensing and controlling. 802.15.4 is also the physical layer […]
