Will WiGig Replace Cables?
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Hugh Pickens writes "Priya Ganapati reports in Wired that the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, a consortium of electronics companies, has established a specification for 60 gigahertz wireless technology that can offer users data transfer speeds at least ten times faster than today's Wi-Fi and it could be available to consumers by the end of next year playing into two big trends: the proliferation of multimedia and the increasing cable clutter than users have to deal with. "Today's wireless networks will top out at a few hundred Mbps but what we are talking about here is multiple gigabits of data transfer speed," says Craig Mathias, principal with research firm Farpoint Group. "That plays into the ever-increasing demand for throughput." WiGig joins a fray of wireless standards that are fighting to free consumers from being tethered to their devices including IEEE's 802.11ad standard that will also be based on the 60GHz spectrum but is not expected to be available before 2012. While Wi-Fi has emerged as the standard technology for wireless access, it is too slow to handle high-definition video or transfer pictures from the camera to the laptop. "What we are talking about here is the ability to download a 25 GB Blu-ray disc in under a minute," says Mark Grodzinsky, chairman of the marketing workgroup at the Wireless Gigabit Alliance. "It's not something you can do with Wi-Fi or any other standard right now.""
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