Topic summary
Wireless local area network
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Wireless LAN.
History
In 1989 in Australia, a team of scientists began working on wireless LAN technology. A prototype test bed for a wireless local area network (WLAN) was developed in 1992 by a team of researchers from the Radiophysics Division of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in Australia, led by John O'Sullivan. A patent for Wi-Fi was lodged by the CSIRO in 1992.