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NEW YORK — a, b, a/b, or g? Anyone attending Intel’s new Centrino Wi-Fi-enabled chipset launch Wednesday could not avoid the alphabet soup-like discussions about the different 802.11 wireless LAN networking specifications. At the same time, the chip maker found itself answering critics who questioned why the company sent Centrino into the marketplace wedded to […]

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Erin Joyce
Mar 13, 2003
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NEW YORK — a, b, a/b, or g?

Anyone attending Intel’s new Centrino Wi-Fi-enabled chipset launch
Wednesday
could not avoid the alphabet soup-like discussions about the
different 802.11 wireless LAN networking specifications.

At the same time, the chip maker found itself answering critics who questioned
why
the company sent Centrino into the marketplace wedded to only one 802.11
version — 802.11b

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