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802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel

Posted by timothy on 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."

8 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the signal range will be abysmal.

    1. Re:So what? by dinfinity · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Yes, apparently replacing wires is the general idea of the 802.11ad:
      http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57326718-264/wilocity-60ghz-wireless-revolution-begins-at-ces/

      Or wireless point to point line of sight commercial connections:
      http://www.bridgewave.com/products/60ghz.cfm

    2. Re:So what? by sexconker · · Score: 5, Informative

      60GHz will be essentially unaffected by microwaves.

      However, I note that my laptop (with 802.11g) works just fine on top of my operating microwave

      I hope for your sake that isn't all sitting on your lap while operating. You might end up like this guy if you keep doing that for too long.

      Link contains image of a South Park character with elephantitis of the testicles, wheeling his scrotum around in a wheelbarrow.
      Obviously NSFW.

  2. Re:Lord. by bugs2squash · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    --
    Nullius in verba
  3. Re:Lord. by dohzer · · 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.

  4. Re:Are we suddenly following the alphabet? by MinutiaeMan · · 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".)

  5. Re:That and by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    compare it to visible light, which is 100s of THz, and is stopped by any solid substance.

    In general good points, but my glasses beg to differ on this last one.

  6. IEEE 802 by unixisc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IEEE 802.12 is not WLAN - it's 100BaseVG While that group may have been disbanded, IEEE 802 is their set of standards dealing w/ LANs and MANs, and then, the number after the period deals w/ different aspects of it, such as 1 for bridging, 3 for ethernet, 11 for WLAN (all the ones in b/w were used by other networking technologies, such as Token Bus, Fiber Optic TAG and so on, but are mostly currently disbanded.) IEEE 15 through 22 are the next active standards, but none having much to do w/ WLAN.