Technical data

WSM

Wi-Fi Scheduled Media. The Wi-Fi Alliance's emerging standard for QoS that is based upon

the HCF portion of the 802.11e standard, which dedicates bandwidth segments to specific

data types. WSM is going to have less of a focus in the enterprise space than its WME coun-

terpart.

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access. The Wi-Fi Alliance put together WPA as a data encryption method

for 802.11 Wireless LANs. WPA is an industry-supported, pre-standard version of 802.11i

utilizing the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). WPA will serve until the 802.11i stan-

dard is ratified in the third quarter of 2003.

X.509

Created by the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication Standardiza-

tion Sector (ITU-T), X.509 is the most widely used standard for defining digital certificates.