802.11ac ready to scream into the marketplace2012-02-29 11:34 by DanielaTags: 802.11ac, Wi-Fi, Broadcom
One of the main topics at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, is the newly emerged Wi-Fi standard - 802.11ac. It turns out that Wi-Fi products based upon 802.11ac will quickly hit the market in a much broader range of products than the standard's predecessor, 802.11n. Broadcom executives at MWC confirmed yesterday that the chipmaker is "beyond the sampling phase and even in a preproduction phase," according to Michael Hurlston, the company's senior vice president for wireless LAN, for its two-stream and three-stream 11ac chips. Hurlston said he expects finished OEM products, almost certainly access points, routers and the like, to be on sale from Broadcom's customers by mid-2012. Broadcom's rival, Qualcomm, with the Wi-Fi expertise and technology from its Atheros acquisition, confirmed it will start sampling its 11ac product family sometime in 2012 Q2, according to David Favreau, vice president of product management. 802.11ac will work exclusively in 5 GHz band - offering much greater capacity than the cluttered 2.4 GHz band -and will employ much wider communications channels, make better use of MIMO technologies and provide a higher modulation coding scheme to improve Wi-Fi throughput and performance. Read more -here-
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