Wireless network

A wireless network is a telephone or computer network that uses radio as their carrier or physical layer.

Wireless MAN - metropolitan area network
Wireless LAN - local area networks
Wireless PAN - personal area networks
GSM - Global standard for digital mobile communication, common in most countries except South Korea and Japan
PCS - Personal communication system - not a single standard, this covers both CDMA and GSM networks operating at 1900 MHz in North America
Mobitex - pager-based network in the USA and Canada, built by Ericsson, now used by PDAs such as the Palm VII and Research in Motion BlackBerry
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service, upgraded packet-based service within the GSM framework, gives higher data rates and always-on service
UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone Service (3rd generation cell phone network), based on the W-CDMA radio access network
AX.25 - amateur packet radio
NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephony, analog system originally developed by PTTs in the Nordic countries
AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone System introduced in the Americas in about 1984.
D-AMPS - Digital AMPS, also known as TDMA
Wi-Fi - Wireless Fidelity, widely used for Wireless LAN, and based on IEEE 802.11 standards.
Wimax - A solution for BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) and conforms to IEEE 802.16 standard.

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