802.11a in europe

[alessandro]

Hi, I'm an italian student and I have to realize a wireless Lan in my department.
I would like to use products with 802.11a specification!
Is it possible in Europe?
And in Italy??
I would like integrate the Wlan whit 802.11a, Bluethoot and Hiperlan/2. Is it possible???
Thank uoy for the help
Bye,
Alessandro

[ua549]

AFIK 802.11a is currently deployable in the EU. I don't specifically know about Italy. If you can purchase the products locally, they should be deployable.

[MoleStrangler]

ETSI have not approved the 802.11a standard as it conflicts with the ETSI HYPERLAN/2 standard, well not conflicts but it would take too long to explain.

No 802.11a products are allowed in EU member countries until they sort this out. This may happen in Q3 or Q4 2002.

Sorry,

[RupertG]

Molestrangler:--

The UK and the Netherlands are allowing 802.11a equipment in early, provided that it doesn't use all of the band and doesn't have too many base stations. Intel is sending stuff over in Q2; you have to set up the limitations when you install the gear, but this is apparently easy.

Don't know what the situation is in Italy, but seeing as every time I go over there the concept of 'spectrum management' and 'licenced transmitters' seems strangely missing from my phrasebook I imagine 802.11a will be there in force shortly...

Rupert

[MoleStrangler]

That comes from a recent agreement between Intel and the individual countries. Some accept it others do not.

We have the same kind of agreement for Israel becuase their frequency restrictions are not a part of the IEEE 802.11 standard so they do not have a country code set-up in the standard.

And 802.11a will come to ETSI as Amphion released a dual standard 802.11a & HiperLAN2 chipset on the 22 Jan.

[RupertG]

Yes, but the PHY side of 802.11a with 802.11h *is* HiperLAN 2! And it's not as if Amphion makes chips, either...

R