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Telecommunications Rival bodies battle for multigigabit wireless local network market
Telecommunications Rival bodies battle for multigigabit wireless local network market | Rival bodies battle for multigigabit wireless local network market |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 18 September 2009 | |
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The new members are Toshiba - which has also joined the organisation's board of directors; Agilent Technologies; Beam Networks, Ralink Technology Corporation and Texas Instruments. According to the alliance its members are defining a unified specification that will enable PCs, consumer electronics and handheld devices to communicate without wires at gigabit speeds within a typical room. "WiGig technology will leverage the unlicensed 60GHz spectrum and address performance and power requirements of many wireless devices and platforms, while coexisting with and complementing existing and future 802.11 wireless systems, driving an interoperable ecosystem of easy-to-use, very high-speed and energy-efficient wireless products. The technology is being touted as enabling "a true high-performance wireless ecosystem encompassing cell-phone centric, laptop centric and TV centric applications. The WiGig specification is expected to be available to member companies by the end of 2009. In parallel the alliance is developing a plan to certify the interoperability of WiGig products. However there are a number of other competing initiatives, including one to which most of the WiGig founders belong. WiGig's founders include: Atheros Communications, Broadcom, Dell, Intel, LG Electronics, Marvell International, MediaTek, Microsoft, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics and Wilocity. They are joined by contributors NXP, Realtek, STMicroelectronics and Tensorcom. CONTINUED
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