Emerging standard 802.11ad to improve wireless performance

While the newest wireless technology standard 802.11ac is gaining more popularity, experts at an Interop New York panel said today that the 802.11ad standard is likely to be even more transformative. 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.

"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."

"There are some unique characteristics about the 60GHz band that really help in bringing a whole bunch of new use cases," said Mark Grodzinsky, vice president of marketing for 60GHz pioneer Wilocity. Some of those uses include wireless docking and uncompressed HD video streaming. "60 GHz is also highly directional," he added. "So whereas in 2.4 and 5GHz it's pretty much an omnidirectional transmission, meaning the antennas just blow energy in all directions, with 60GHz, it's very focused."

Devices using the 60GHz standard could begin to appear in 2014 and become more popular in 2015.

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