Gigabit Wi-Fi in 2010

IEEE is responsible for maintaining all of the standard specification announced that wireless While 802.11n specifications are still not completed, the two groups of researchers have started developing a new generation of wireless that can rival the speed gigabit ethernet connections offered today. They have each submitted a proposal that will be called IEEE 802.11 VHT (Very High Throughput) that operate in the two-channel frequency, 60GHz for short range and 6GHz for the distance.

Although the second proposal is still not officially approved by IEEE, the researchers are optimistic that this proposal will be approved. If the proposal is approved, wireless data transfer speed will increase dramatically. Although the 802.11n standard to say that the maximum speed of 802.11n can achieve 300Mbps, but in practice a variety of network devices' pre-n 'that today there are only capable of reaching speeds of 100 Mbps depending on network traffic.

802.11 VHT proposal aims to create a product minimum speed 1Gbps speed limit so that the specifications will be higher again. Tushar Moorti, director of the division WLAN Broadcom said that "for now we want the minimum speed of 500Mbps for each link and each access point device that supports VHT able to use some of the links at the same time so the total speed will be much more than 1Gbps."

Craig Mathias, one of the leaders of Farpoint Group also provides a very optimistic prediction, saying that "we will see VHT standard in two years, and WLAN products with more speed of 1 Gbps will appear in three starts this year," according to the prediction that I a bit too positive because the Wi-Max specifications that have been developed in 2004, also up to now is still not yet finished. VHT proposal submitted to the IEEE own target year 2012 or 2013, but already many of the wireless technology vendors that have participated actively in this project, including Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, Motorola and Nortel. (Network World)

Update: as said agin, 802.11n specifications different from the WiMax (802.16x specifications). 802.11n wireless LAN technology is to replace the function of the ethernet and wireless technology WiMax is a wireless WAN to expand the coverage of wide-band network such as cable or DSL. Sorry for this mistake.