Novatel MiFi 2200 User Manual page 58

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Wi-Fi — Wireless Fidelity. Refers to any system that uses the 802.11 standard, which was developed by
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and released in 1997.
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WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network. A wireless form of a local area network. See LAN.
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WWAN — Wireless Wide Area Network. Also called "wireless broadband" or "broadband wireless, "
wireless WANs (WWANs) use cellular towers to transmit a wireless signal over a range of several miles
to a mobile device compared to wireless Wi-Fi LANs (WLANs), which span only a few hundred feet and
generally to only stationary devices.
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