IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE802 is a specification for family of IEEE and standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. More specifically, the IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets.
The IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. The IEEE stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The IEEE 802 standards are resricted to networks carrying variable size packets. The number 802 was simply the next free number the IEEE could assign.