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Faster Wireless Multimedia Streaming

Posted by michael on from the wireless-everything dept.

prostoalex writes "The Wi-Fi Alliance approved Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) technology that allows packet prioritisation to the multimedia data streamed wireless LANs. Broadcom already announced that one of their access points and one reference design are WMM-certified. Other news outlets report that WMM will accelerate Wi-Fi adoption in consumer electronics and mobile devices."

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  1. Re:Why should I care about Broadcom? by whovian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Broadcom already announced that one of their access points and one reference design are WMM-certified.

    No kidding. But a couple of saving graces might be Atheros (Prism chipsets) and (cough) Intel (gigabit ethernet; Centrino 2100/2200), since they are part of the Wi-Fi Alliance.

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