The IEEE Standards Association Standards Board approved the IEEE 802.11ad-2012...
The IEEE Standards Association Standards Board approved the IEEE 802.11ad-2012 amendment, IEEE said Tuesday. The amendment provides for data rates up to 7 Gbps -- more than 10 times the previous maximum speed enabled by the standard, IEEE said. The…
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amendment also acts as a “foundation for tri-band networking, wireless docking, wired equivalent data transfer rates and uncompressed streaming video,” IEEE said. Wireless services will be able to transition between the 60 GHz band and the legacy 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, meaning mobile devices will always be “best connected,” IEEE said. “By migrating up to the next ISM [Industrial, Scientific and Medical] band (60 GHz), we break ground on new spectrum for IEEE 802.11, enable an order of magnitude improvement in performance and enable usages that have never before been possible with existing IEEE 802.11 -- namely wireless docking and streaming video,” said Bruce Kraemer, chair of the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Working Group, in a news release (http://bit.ly/ZmeJ5a). The Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance, which contributed to the amendment, praised the standards board Tuesday for approving it. “Our members have worked closely with IEEE on developing the standard,” said WiGig Alliance President Ali Sadri in a news release. “We are excited to say that the WiGig MAC/PHY [Media Access Control layer and the PHY or Physical Layer] specification is completely aligned with the published 802.11ad standard. Gaining approval from a global standardization body gives WiGig Alliance additional international recognition and moves us one step closer to widespread industry adoption."