UWB Takes On 802.11n in the Wireless Fast Lane.(Ultra-Wide Bandwidth )

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This week's news that the Wi-Fi Alliance, the group that certifies wireless products, is taking a strong stand against certifying prestandard 802.11n products comes as no surprise. The group's role in the industry is, after all, to be the watchdog on standards and interoperability. Its logo on a product means the goods have been certified to be interoperable with other products bearing the logo.

But the alliance's action should not mean that innovative products that use high-speed MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology should--or will--come off the market. MIMO is the scheme at the center of standards proposals now in front of the IEEE and, while the proposals differ on many things, they do agree that MIMO should be part of 802.11n.

Click here [link omitted] to read about the Wi-Fi Alliance's crackdown on "pre-n" products.

802.11n is a new high-speed standard for wireless Ethernet. Our friend Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Networking News uses the best single-phrase description I've seen to describe it: "Wi-Fi's next speed bump." And it certainly is. 802.11n specifies high-speed throughput of 100 Mbps with...

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