Apple today is a premier technological giant whose various products like their Macintosh computers and the Mac operating systems along with the iPods have earned worldwide repute and these brand names have catapulted Apple to being one of the top brands in the world. Among some of the major technological innovations that have been introduced by Apple, one significant one is the local area wireless network it constituted known as AirPort.

The basic foundation to this wireless network is provided by the Wi-Fi technology based on the IEEE 802.11b standard protocol. The latest addition to this was the AirPort Extreme which is run on the IEEE 802.11g protocol.

It was in the late 1990s that AirPort was introduced for the first time and the AirPort cards were soon introduced which became mandatory with every Power Macs, eMacs, iMacs and PowerBooks which included an ORiNOCO gold card and PC card adaptor and it was only the Xserves which did not contain this feature. Its main function was to aid the sharing of files and data through the interent and also browsing the internet at the rate of 11Mbit per second.

The AirPort Extreme was introduced in 2003 was based on the IEEE 802.11g protocol and the transfer rate speed increased to 54Mbits per second. Most of Apple’s personal computers and portable computers like the Mac mini, Mac Book Pro, Mac Book etc. make use of this AirPort function. However it needs to be borne in mind in this case that the older models of the Apple computers or portables are not compatible to the AirPort cards unlike the recent versions which contain expansion slots for the insertion of these cards. The new AirPort Extreme base station was revamped and introduced by Apple in 2007 and it ensures efficient internet connectivity without any glitches.

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