IEEE Developments in Wireless Networking

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 20, 2006 @02:27AM from the how-to-talk-to-the-eather dept.

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."

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Think of the consumers! by plbland · 2006-01-20 02:36 · Score: 3, Insightful

I think it would be quite nice if they could at least co-operate to some degree with these UWB WiFi technologies. It's easy for the /. crowd to understand these compatibility issues but it can only be hassle for the general consumer who barely understand the current wireless standards/speeds.
Not needed for VoIP by hey · 2006-01-20 02:45 · Score: 3, Insightful

Its cool and all that they are making a faster standard but the article says:

This technology in particular is key to enhancing the VoIP user experience.

I get 54Mbps on WiFi now. That's more than fast enough for VoIP.