Apple Airport

Apple introduced the Apple Airport on July 21, 1999 as an easy way to connect wireless devices to a computer, enable wireless printing, remote access to a music library in iTunes, and wireless Internet sharing. By connecting an Airport base station to the main computer, a user can then connect an Airport Express unit to a printer for wireless printing, to a stereo for remote access to a digital music library or to other computers for Internet sharing. The advantage of Airport is that a user does not need a home network to share a printer or music library. The Airport system acts as the home network. A home network would also not be needed to share Internet between computers. One computer only needs to be connected to the Internet and additional computers access the Internet via Airport Express devices.

Also see: Apple definitions, Network definitions, Wi-Fi