HIPERLAN is a European standard for wireless local area networks (WLANs) developed by ETSI to provide high performance networking comparable to wired Ethernet networks. HIPERLAN 1 operates in the 5GHz band and uses a frequency hopping spread spectrum technique along with advanced MAC and PHY layer protocols to provide data rates up to 23Mbps and support both asynchronous and isochronous traffic. HIPERLAN 2 is under development and aims to be compatible with asynchronous transfer mode networking to provide quality of service guarantees over wireless links.