802.11n Should Be Finalized By September

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @03:31AM from the speedy-process dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "It's probable that the 802.11n standard will finally be approved at a scheduled IEEE meeting this September, ending a contentious round of infighting that has delayed the standard for years. For the 802.11n standard, progress has been agonizingly slow, dating back almost five years to 2004, when 802.11g held sway. It struggled throughout 2005 and 2006, when members supposedly settled on the TGnSync standard, then formed the Enhanced Wireless Consortium in 2006 to speed the process along. A draft version of 802.11n was approved in January 2006, prompting the first wave of routers based on the so-called draft-n standard shortly thereafter."

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Compatibility with Draft-N by nsteinme · 2009-07-21 03:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

Will the final version be (backwards?) compatible with Draft-N routers and wireless cards?

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1. Re:Compatibility with Draft-N by Darkness404 · 2009-07-21 03:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I would think that it would have to be, otherwise no one will use the real standard due to backwards compatibility. Most probably the draft version of N will be about the exact same as the final version of N.
  
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Re:IEEE FAIL! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2009-07-21 03:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

Since 2004.

Trouble is, with something like Wifi, where much of the value lies in ubiquity and interoperability, there really isn't a "forward" to move toward without a standard(official, informal consensus, or de-facto standard + clones).