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Undid revision 987496205 by 37.208.170.232 (talk) - "Token Ring" and "Ethernet" here refer to the network technologies, rather than to an individual network using one of those technologies, so the definite article "a" isn't required and doesn't belong there.
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A '''wireless network interface controller''' ('''WNIC''') is a [[network interface controller]] which connects to a [[wireless network]], rather than a wired network, such as a [[Token Ring]] or [[Ethernet]]. A WNIC, just like other NICs, works on the layers 1 and 2 of the [[OSI model]]. This card uses an [[antenna (radio)|antenna]] to communicate via [[microwave]].
 
Early wireless network interface controllers were commonly implemented on [[expansion card]]s connected using the [[Peripheral Component Interconnect|PCI]] bus and [[PCIe]] bus or via [[USB]], [[PC Card]], [[ExpressCard]], [[Mini PCIe]] or [[M.2]].
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