In computer networking, a wireless access point (WAP) (also just access point (AP)) is a networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to...

An Access Point Name (APN) is the name of a gateway between a mobile network (GSM, GPRS, 3G, 4G and 5G) and another computer network, frequently the public...

Look up access point in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Access point or Access Point may refer to: Access Point (Antarctica), a rocky point on Anvers...

A rogue access point is a wireless access point that has been installed on a secure network without explicit authorization from a local network administrator...

A network service access point address (NSAP address), defined in ISO/IEC 8348, is an identifying label for a service access point (SAP) used in OSI networking...

Inter-Access Point Protocol or IEEE 802.11F is a recommendation that describes an optional extension to IEEE 802.11 that provides wireless access point communications...

MAE-West continued for more than twenty years. Today, the phrase "Network Access Point" is of historical interest only, since the four transitional NAPs disappeared...

The LLC Header consist of DSAP (Destination Service Access Point), SSAP (Source Service Access Point) and the Control field. The two 8-bit fields DSAP and...

more protocols than can be distinguished by the eight-bit 802.2 Service Access Point (SAP) fields. SNAP supports identifying protocols by EtherType field...

A Service Access Point (SAP) is an identifying label for network endpoints used in Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking. The SAP is a conceptual...

networks in crowded environments. The range of an access point is about 20 m (66 ft) indoors, while some access points claim up to a 150 m (490 ft) range outdoors...

wireless access points, while a femtocell-based deployment will work with existing handsets but requires the installation of a new access point that uses...

vampire tap. Some vendors define TAP as an acronym for test access point or terminal access point; however, those are backronyms. The monitored traffic is...

Access Point is a rocky point immediately southeast of Biscoe Point and 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Cape Lancaster on the south side of Anvers Island...

Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP) is a protocol that can control multiple Wi-Fi wireless access points at once. This can reduce the amount of...

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) (Wireless Protected Access), Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), and Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) are the three security...

a subject access point is defined as any access point useful for subject searching. There is no precise border between descriptive access points and...

The Hamara Youth Access Point (Hyap) was a drop-in centre for teens in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, operated by the Hamara Healthy Living Centre, an...

Look up access in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Access may refer to: ACCESS (Australia), an Australian youth network Access (credit card), a former...

from the currently associated access point range and finds another access point with a stronger signal. The new access point coordinates the forwarding of...

Essentially, GAN/UMA allows cell phone packets to be forwarded to a network access point over the internet, rather than over-the-air using GSM/GPRS, UMTS or similar...

between communicating entities. A common example is an ISP point of presence, the local access point that allows users to connect to the Internet with their...

access point (AP), but cannot directly communicate with other nodes that are communicating with that AP. This leads to difficulties in medium access control...

wireless access point is identified by its SSID and MAC address, and these data are compared to a database of supposed locations of access points so...

readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to...

firewalls, load balancers, and network intrusion detection. A wireless access point is required for connecting wireless devices to a network; when a router...

identification (ID) called the BSSID, which is the MAC address of the access point servicing the BSS. There are two types of BSS: Independent BSS (also...

genuine access point (for example, if the genuine access point is nowhere nearby), and if the client does not attempt to authenticate the access point, then...

attack that targets communication between a user and a Wi-Fi wireless access point. Unlike most radio jammers, deauthentication acts in a unique way. The...

communications rather than just tapping specific lines and that not all CALEA-based access requires a warrant. Journalists and technologists have characterised the...