Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS)

- [Instructor] When we're on a wireless client, and we're looking at the list of wireless networks that we can join, we often say that those names that are showing up are the different SSIDs of the wireless networks. SSID, that stands for service set identifier, but we have some other service set terms that we need to know. And in this video we want to focus on the independent basic service set, or IBSS. Notice this term does not include ID because we're really not identifying anything. This is actually another way of describing the ad hoc wireless network that we discussed in a previous video where we have a direct connection between a couple of wireless devices, there's no need for a wired infrastructure. And a typical example of this would be when we want to send a file directly from one wireless client to another.