{"id":547787,"date":"2006-01-20T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547787-draft-standard-chosen-for-faster-wi-fi.html"},"modified":"2006-01-20T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T15:42:45","slug":"draft-standard-chosen-for-faster-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547787-draft-standard-chosen-for-faster-wi-fi.html","title":{"rendered":"Draft standard chosen for faster Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This development ends a long struggle to choose between two main draft proposals for the standard. <\/p>\n<p>Both would have used multiple antennas to achieve the real-world throughput of at least 100Mbps that is required in 802.11n. <\/p>\n<p>A special group was formed in the middle of last year to come up with a joint proposal, and it submitted the plan that was approved Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The vote took place Thursday morning in Kona, Hawaii, at a general meeting of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers&#8217; (IEEE) 802.11 Working Group.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">There is still work to do on the draft before it can be ratified as a final standard, according to Bill McFarland, chief technology officer of Atheros Communications and a voting member of the task group. <\/p>\n<p>Once it has been formatted according to IEEE rules, it will go out to a group of engineers across the 802.11 Working Group, which is responsible for all wireless LAN standards. <\/p>\n<p>Those engineers will point out problems if they see them, and there will be a series of modifications and votes until the draft gets more than 75% approval among those voters, McFarland says.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Finally, an even broader group of IEEE members will vote on final ratification. McFarland believes that is likely to happen near the end of this year or in early 2007. <\/p>\n<p>However, products built according to the draft specification should reach customers around the middle of this year, according to McFarland.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">On Thursday, after news of the confirmation vote, Broadcom announced the availability of a family of chipsets that it claimed are the first products designed to comply with the draft. <\/p>\n<p>The chipsets, called Intensi-fi, include ones that could be used in routers, notebook PCs and add-in PC Cards, according to the company. <\/p>\n<p>They are available to manufacturers now in sample quantities. Broadcom did not provide pricing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The task group working on a new, faster standard for Wi-Fi, called IEEE 802.11n, has settled on a draft proposal that will now be refined into a final specification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}