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704GLOSSARY

wireless LAN	See WLAN.
Wireless Switch™	A switch in a 3Com Mobility System. A WX provides forwarding,
(WX™)	queuing, tunneling, and some security services for the information it
	receives from its directly attached Managed Access Points (MAPs). In
	addition, the WX coordinates, provides power to, and manages the
	configuration of each attached MAP, by means of the MAP Control
	Protocol.
WISP	Wireless Internet service provider. A company that provides public
	wireless LAN (WLAN) services.
WLAN	Wireless LAN. A LAN to which mobile users (clients) can connect and
	communicate by means of high-frequency radio waves rather than
	wires. WLANs are defined in the IEEE 802.11 standard.
WPA	Wi-Fi Protected Access. The Wi-Fi Alliance’s version of the Temporal Key
	Integrity Protocol (TKIP) that also includes a message integrity code
	(MIC) known as Michael. Although WPA provides greater wireless
	security than the Wired-Equivalent Privacy protocol (WEP), WPA is not
	as secure as IEEE 802.11i, which includes both the RC4 encryption used
	in WEP and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, but is not
	yet ratified by IEEE. See also AES; RC4; TKIP.
WPA IE	A set of extra fields in a wireless frame that contain Wi-Fi Protected
	Access (WPA) information for the access point or client. For example, a
	Managed Access Point (MAP) uses the WPA IE in a beacon frame to
	advertise the cipher suites and authentication methods that the MAP
	supports for its encrypted SSID.
WPA information	See WPA IE.
element
WX™	See Wireless Switch™ (WX™).
X.500	A standard of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
	and International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication
	Standardization Sector (ITU-T), for systematically collecting the names of
	people in an organization into an electronic directory that can be part
	of a global directory available to anyone in the world with Internet
	access.