New WiFi Standards, Double the Data?

Posted by simoniker on Monday August 18, 2003 @08:43AM from the tin-can-and-piece-of-string dept.

morkeleb writes "According to the New York Times (free reg. req.), just when you thought it was safe to stock your home or office the 802.11x way, another possibility springs up. From Stanford and Bell Labs comes an approach using MIMO, which 'relies on taking advantage of huge amounts of computing power to send numbers of signals from closely spaced antennas', thereby enhancing range and throughput. Looks like Intel and Nokia are interested in the technology, as well as a number of highroller venture capitalist groups."

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Google Link by error502 · 2003-08-18 08:46 · Score: 5, Informative

Google has this article, too. No reg required.
802.11x Clarification by WC+as+Kato · 2003-08-18 09:19 · Score: 4, Informative

According to this Infoworld article, Airgo Networks is working on enhancing 802.11a. This is not a new version of 802.11.

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