The quest for more bandwidth is neverending, so soon after vendors make one technical advance, they move on to the next. With 54 Mbps 802.11g wireless LANs now poised to gain a lion’s share of product shipments, vendors are examining ways to push the bandwidth plateau past the 100 Mbps mark. Proprietary approaches are already available to reach that goal, but analysts anticipate that a standard approach, dubbed 802.11n, will soon emerge and then lead to product shipments in 2006.
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Work on Higher-Speed WLAN Standard Begins
Posted by: Paul Korzeniowski August 7, 2004 01:30 AMThe quest for more bandwidth is neverending, so soon after vendors make one technical advance, they move on to the next. With 54 Mbps 802.11g wireless LANs now poised to gain a lion’s share of product shipments, vendors are examining ways to push the bandwidth plateau past the 100 Mbps mark. Proprietary approaches are already available to reach that goal, but analysts anticipate that a standard approach, dubbed 802.11n, will soon emerge and then lead to product shipments in 2006.