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CT: Wi-Fi has become the preferred means for connecting to the Internet, without wires: at home, in the office, in hotels and restaurants, at airports and railway stations. Increasingly, it is providing access to the Internet for remote communities in developing countries and in rural areas of developed countries.
S: Wi-Fi – https://goo.gl/LKlZTu (last access: 2 December 2016)
N: 1. It dates back to 1999, a common misconception is that it is short for ‘wireless fidelity’. ‘Wi-Fi’ is simply a trademarked phrase that means IEEE 802.11x.
2. It is a wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet and network connections.
3. The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that owns the Wi-Fi registered trademark term, specifically defines Wi-Fi as any ‘wireless local area network (WLAN) products that are based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) 802.11 standards’.
4. Like mobile phones, a Wi-Fi network makes use of radio waves to transmit information across a network. The computer should include a wireless adapter that will translate data sent into a radio signal. This same signal will be transmitted, via an antenna, to a decoder known as the router. Once decoded, the data will be sent to the Internet through a wired Ethernet connection. The wireless network works as a two-way traffic, the data received from the Internet will also pass through the router to be coded into a radio signal that will be received by the computer’s wireless adapter.
S: 1. OED – https://goo.gl/QPkgWa (last access: 2 December 2016); Webop – https://goo.gl/HMcMr (last access: 2 December 2016). 2 and 3. Webop – https://goo.gl/HMcMr (last access: 2 December 2016). 4. CCM – https://goo.gl/stUph0 (last access: 2 December 2016).
SYN: Wi-Fi technology
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://goo.gl/14YHOQ (last access: 2 December 2016)
CR: Bluetooth wireless technology, breadcrumbs, computer network, computer science, data packet, Internet , roaming, smart glasses, smartphone, smartwatch, tablet, wireless network.
