IEEE Wireless Networking Standard Wins PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award

The development team or working group for IEEE Std 802.11 for Higher Speed Physical Layer (PHY) Extension in the 2.4 Ghz Band won the prestigious PC Magazine Award for Technical Excellence in the category of Network standards on 15 Nov, Las Vegas, NV. Vic Hayes, chairman of the 802.11 standards committee, accepted the award on behalf of the group and IEEE. The awards for technical excellence are designed to recognize those products that have made an outstanding contribution to the computer industry and have set a new standard for technical innovation. IEEE Std 802.11-1999 [adopted as International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 8802-11:1999] provides wireless connectivity to automatic machinery, equipment or stations that require rapid deployment, which may be portable or hand-held or mounted on vehicles within a local area. A photo of the award acceptance is on the 802.11 groups web homepage at http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/. For more information contact Karen McCabe, k.mccabe@ieee.org, +1 732 562 3824.