CONNECT University Session on “IEEE, Standardisation and Wi-Fi – a success story"

Wi-Fi technology is among the greatest success stories of this new technology era, and its societal benefits are huge to most of the world population. This CONNECT University session presented the story of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the largest professional organization in the world with 422 thousand members from over 160 countries. A comprehensive overview of its standardisation activities was included in the programme. The lecture introduced IEEE 802.11, also known as Wi-Fi, and the Wi-Fi family of standards. In the same time, the complementary roles of Wi-Fi and 5G was also addressed. Speakers: José M. Fonseca de Moura, IEEE President and CEO Cees Links, Wi-Fi pioneer Follow us here: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/connect-university http://www.ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en http://www.twitter.com/DSMeu http://www.facebook.com/DigitalSingleMarket/ http://www.instagram.com/digitalsinglemarket/

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