Claim: Wi-Fi Certified products must conform to certain standards of quality.

IEEE 802.11 is a set of media access control -LRB- MAC -RRB- and physical layer -LRB- PHY -RRB- specifications for implementing wireless local area network -LRB- WLAN -RRB- computer communication in the 900 MHz and 2.4 , 3.6 , 5 , and 60 GHz frequency bands . They are created and maintained by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers -LRB- IEEE -RRB- LAN/MAN Standards Committee -LRB- IEEE 802 -RRB- . The base version of the standard was released in 1997 , and has had subsequent amendments . The standard and amendments provide the basis for wireless network products using the Wi-Fi brand . While each amendment is officially revoked when it is incorporated in the latest version of the standard , the corporate world tends to market to the revisions because they concisely denote capabilities of their products . As a result , in the marketplace , each revision tends to become its own standard .