IEEE 802.11
Wireless network standard
Follow IEEE 802.11 on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
We include updates on List of WLAN channels, Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi Protected Access, Wireless access point, Wired Equivalent Privacy, Received signal strength indicator, Direct-sequence spread spectrum, Line-of-sight propagation, Dynamic frequency selection, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance, Hidden node problem, Beacon frame, MeshBox, Distributed coordination function ... and more.
| 2024 | Morse Micro established an operations centre in Taiwan, expanding their global presence to include a new location alongside existing centres in Sydney, United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom. |
| December 2024 |
Wi-Fi 7
Expected final version of the 802.11be amendment, completing the technical standardization of Wi-Fi 7.
|
| January 8 2024 |
Wi-Fi 7
Wi-Fi Alliance launched the Wi-Fi Certified 7 program, establishing certification processes for Wi-Fi 7 devices, even though final standard ratification was still pending.
|
| 2023 |
Wi-Fi 7
First Wi-Fi 7 products became available in retail markets, enabling early adoption of the new wireless networking standard.
|
| 2023 | The company expanded to employ 180 people across Australia, the United States, China, India, UK, Singapore, and Taiwan, with a strategic focus on expanding into the Japanese market through investor MegaChips. |
| 2023 | Morse Micro won the IoT Product of the Year award for a second consecutive year. |
| November 2023 | By November, the Singapore facility had produced over 2 million chips. |
| August 2023 | Morse Micro launched its Singapore facility for chip assembly and warehousing. |
| February 15 2023 | Morse Micro reached an estimated company valuation of US$700 million (over A$1 billion). |
| 2022 |
Wi-Fi 7
Numerous Wi-Fi 7 products were announced based on draft standards, signaling early industry preparation for the new wireless technology.
|
| 2022 | Morse Micro won the global industry award for IoT Product of the Year for its security camera applications. |
| October 2022 | By late 2022, the market for Wi-Fi HaLow products began expanding, with particular interest from industrial IoT developers in the Japanese market looking to deploy thousands of sensor and actuator devices in warehouses. |
| September 2022 | Morse Micro announced its Series B investment round, initially A$140 million and later extended to A$170 million, led by Japanese company MegaChips with participation from existing investors. |
| May 11 2021 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
FragAttacks security vulnerabilities were revealed, exposing significant weaknesses in Wi-Fi devices that could allow attackers to steal information or target devices. The vulnerabilities affect most Wi-Fi devices across all security protocols, including WPA3 and WEP, highlighting critical security challenges in wireless networking.
|
| March 2021 |
Wi-Fi 7
Development of IEEE 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) amendment began with the initial draft, marking the start of the Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless networking standard.
|
| 2020 |
Wi-Fi 7
IEEE 802.1Qcr asynchronous traffic scheduling standard was published, which is one of the Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) extensions considered for Wi-Fi 7 integration.
|
| 2020 | The first generation of Morse Micro microchips went into production in Taiwan, marking a significant milestone for the company's WiFi HaLow technology development. |
| July 1 2020 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPA3 became mandatory for Wi-Fi device certification, requiring all new Wi-Fi devices to implement the most recent wireless security protocol.
|
| June 30 2020 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
The mandatory WPA2 certification requirement for new Wi-Fi devices was discontinued, potentially allowing for newer security standards to be introduced.
|
| May 2019 | Morse Micro completed its Series A funding round, raising A$42 million from investors including Clean Energy Innovation Fund, CSIRO Innovation Fund, Ray Stata, Blackbird Ventures, and others. |
| 2018 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
The Wi-Fi Alliance introduced Wi-Fi Easy Connect as a new alternative method for device configuration, designed to mitigate the security issues associated with WPS by allowing nearby devices to serve as a user interface for network provisioning.
|
| June 2018 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPA3 certification process began, marking the official start of the new wireless security protocol's implementation.
|
| January 2018 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
The Wi-Fi Alliance announced the release of WPA3, introducing several security improvements over the previous WPA2 protocol.
|
| 2017 | Australian Government provided seed funding to Morse Micro as the company developed the first WiFi HaLow silicon chip capable of securely connecting smart devices over long distances. |
| October 2017 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Details of the KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attack) vulnerability in WPA2 were published, revealing a critical security flaw that could allow attackers to decrypt network traffic by exploiting weaknesses in the WPA2 4-Way Handshake encryption key generation process.
|
| 2016 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Researchers discovered a critical security vulnerability in WPA and WPA2 standards, revealing an insecure random number generator (RNG) that allows attackers to predict the group key (GTK) and potentially inject or decrypt wireless network traffic.
|
| August 2016 | Morse Micro Pty Ltd was established as a private company by founders Andrew Terry and Michael De Nil, who previously worked together at Broadcom and aimed to create a microprocessor specifically for Internet of Things communication. |
| 2013 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens significantly improved WPA-TKIP attacks, demonstrating the ability to inject an arbitrary number of packets and decrypt packets sent to a client, potentially allowing TCP connection hijacking and malicious JavaScript injection.
|
| 2012 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Moxie Marlinspike and Marsh Ray demonstrated a significant weakness in MS-CHAPv2, reducing the complexity of breaking the protocol to that of breaking a single DES key, which severely compromised its security.
|
| December 2011 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Stefan Viehböck revealed a serious security flaw affecting wireless routers with Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) feature, which allows remote attackers to recover the WPS PIN and potentially the router's WPA/WPA2 password within a few hours.
|
| April 2010 |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Wi-Fi Alliance announced the inclusion of additional EAP types to its certification programs to ensure interoperability between WPA-Enterprise certified products.
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Morse Micro, Wi-Fi Protected Access, Operating system Wi-Fi support & Wi-Fi 7, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.