197 results about "IEEE 802" patented technology

IEEE 802 is a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. The IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets, unlike cell relay networks, for example, where data is transmitted in short, uniformly sized units called cells. Isochronous networks, where data is transmitted as a steady stream of octets, or groups of octets, at regular time intervals, are also beyond the scope of the IEEE 802 standards.