802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel

Posted by timothy on Friday October 5, 2012 @11:50AM from the but-magnum-will-blow-them-all-away dept.

alphadogg writes "While the Wi-Fi world is rightly abuzz over the rapidly approaching large-scale deployment of the new 802.11ac standard, experts at an Interop NY panel said this week that the 802.11ad standard is likely to be even more transformative. '802.11ac is an extension for pure mainstream Wi-Fi,' said Sean Coffey, Realtek's director of standards and business development. 'It's evolutionary. ... You're not going to see dramatically new use cases." By contrast, 802.11ad adds 60GHz connectivity to the previously used 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies, potentially providing multi-gigabit connection speeds and dramatically broadening the number of applications for which wireless can be used."

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So what? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-05 12:08 · Score: 5, Funny

And the signal range will be abysmal.
Re:Lord. by bugs2squash · 2012-10-05 12:21 · Score: 5, Funny

you don't have ac ? How do you charge your phone ?

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Re:Lord. by dohzer · 2012-10-05 12:39 · Score: 5, Funny

DC. Everyone knows AC is for killing animals on stage and generating that relaxing hum in audio devices. DC is the way of the future.
Re:Are we suddenly following the alphabet? by MinutiaeMan · 2012-10-05 12:57 · Score: 5, Funny

I hope not; I want to see them get to 802.11wtf someday soon! (And, looking at the Wikipedia list of 802.11 standards, there are already some planned for after "ad".)