One of the problems that enterprise customers unfortunately endure is the endless stream of vendor-invented wireless terminology. Vendors use this techno-jargon marketing-speak to differentiate themselves but oftentimes the terminology simply confuses customers. So, over the past month I’ve been working on a W-Fi lexicon with Joanie Wexler (a well known wireless journalist) and Devin Akin (CTO for the Certified Wireless Network Professional organization). The Lexicon is intended to clarify terminology using plain english and vendor-neutral descriptions. The document is freely distributed and will be updated from time to time.
If you would like to read the document then click here. Enjoy!
Good info in this document regarding vendor-specific WLAN terminology. If some of those terms turn from marketing speak into real-world technologies, I’d like to be able to add them to the next edition of The Official CWNP Dictionary of Terms and Acronyms (http://www.cwnp.com/store/products/DICTIONARY.html), with your and Joanie’s approval, of course.
Joel Barrett