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Hardware component that connects a computer to a wireless computer network
A wireless network interface controller (WNIC) is a network interface controller that connects to a wireless network, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or LTE (4G) or 5G rather than a wired network, such as an Ethernet network. It consists of a modem, an automated radio transmitter and receiver which operate in the background, exchanging digital data in the form of data packets with other wireless devices or wireless routers using radio waves radiated by an antenna, linking the devices together transparently in a computer network. A WNIC, just like other network interface controllers (NICs), works on layers 1 and 2 of the OSI model. Wikipedia →
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Body Sensor NetworksGuang-Zhong Yang · 2006
Data Communications Networking (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking)Behrouz A. Forouzan · 2006
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