Re:Great engineering (Score 1)

You can view the Siemens press release (http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp?sdc_p=cfi1232554 lmno1232554ps5uz1& ) I'm not quite sure why this is news for slashdot. Maybe it's a quite news time. A couple of points:

1. It's not existing hardware. It needs multiple receivers and multiple transmitters.
2. They use 100 MHz bandwidth, so would expect to get a factor of 5 increase over the 54Mbps delivered by 802.11a simply through that.
3. They use 4x3 MIMO which has been around for a while, see particularly the BLAST work done by Chris Nicol & co at Lucent.

(Curse the submit button being right next to the preview button)