High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! WaveLAN is a brand name that was used for a family of wireless networking solutions sold by NCR, AT&T, and Lucent, as well as being sold by other companies under OEM agreements. The WaveLAN name first debuted on the market in 1988 and was in use into the mid-1990s, when Lucent renamed their WaveLAN offerings to ORiNOCO.