802.11n rivals agree to merge

Stuart Corner
Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:18

IT Industry - Deals

The Register reports that the two major factions in the race to develop the standard for the next generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11n, have agreed to submit a unified proposal to the IEEE. It reported that the two groups, TGn Sync and WWiSe, and a third smaller group, MITMOT, had said late last month that they would merge their respective proposals into a draft and submit this to the IEEE in September, following it with a final version in November.

WWiSe backers include Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Conexant, STMicro, Airgo, Bermai, Motorola and Nokia (which switched sides in March). TGn Sync's supporters include Intel, Atheros, Agere, Infineon, Cisco, Qualcomm, Nortel, Mitsubishi, Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sanyo and Toshiba.