IEEE Developments in Wireless Networking

JamesAlfaro writes "After much wrangling between opposing interests among the members of the IEEE, a first draft for the Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11n specification received approval in a Thursday meeting. Final ratification of the standard is not expected until next year." Relatedly, judgecorp writes "The IEEE has disbanded its working group on ultrawideband. They are leaving the marketplace to decide between two competing approaches." From the article: "Freescale, first to the market with UWB products, believes its headstart will give it a long-term victory, while WiMedia, with the backing of industry heavyweights including Intel and Microsoft, reckons its punch will eventually win through, even without a formal IEEE standard."

Comments

Wait faster

[Anonymous Coward]

So now I can wait on the hotel's 1.544 DSL line even faster?

How bout *Nix support for 'b' ???

[smokestacklightning]

Great, another wireless standard whose lack of *nix Driver support will undoubtedly make my machine act all twitchy ...

How about out-of-the-box *nix support that doesn't involve me devoting my spare time, work hours and waking moments getting it to run, or run as it should ...

Ran with NDISWrapper for a long time on my laptop, gave up after my last upgrade when Ubuntu dicked me. Now I've just got this really long, really sad cat5 cable that follows me around the house... My dog thinks it's his pal ...

Subspace Communication within the S-T Continuum!

[digitaldc]

Another technology called Space Time Block Coding (STBC) will reduce signal dropout by using multiple antennas for redundancy.

I knew all those years of Star Trek would eventually lead to every day applications.
Now we can use our wireless routers for subspace communication with strange new worlds and new life forms, and boldly route where no one has routed before.