WiGig spec promises 7Gbps wireless streaming2009-12-11 09:40 by DanielaTags: WiGig, Wi-Fi
The WiGig version 1.0 specification, announced on Thursday, is backwards-compatible with the 802.11 Wi-Fi standard and is designed for a range of consumer electronics. The WiGig Alliance was formed in May by companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Intel, Panasonic and Samsung, who said their first specification would be published in the fourth quarter of this year. "We are proud to deliver on this promise to the industry," WiGig Alliance chief Ali Sadri said in a statement on Thursday. "We're rapidly paving the way for the introduction of the next generation of high‐performance wireless products — PCs, mobile handsets, TVs and displays, Blu‐ray disc players, digital cameras and many more." The idea behind WiGig is to be able to hook up PCs, handsets and consumer electronics devices such as high-definition TV sets and digital cameras for the transfer of data. The technology could supersede wired connections such as HDMI cables, and would also be a potential successor to the latest Wi-Fi technology, 802.11n. WiGig is around 10 times faster than 802.11n, which has a theoretical maximum transfer speed of 600Mbps. WiGig uses 60GHz, an unlicensed piece of spectrum that allows for very high data throughput. Its physical layer makes it possible to create low-power or high-performance WiGig devices. Read more -here-
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