Gigabit wireless for everyone: Wilocity demos first 60GHz wireless devices

Searching_ _ _ · Jan 12, 2012

The new standard, labeled as 802.11ad, provides for over 5 gigabits per second (Gbps) per pair of devices, and by using a very cool way of shaping the actual radio waves, pairs of devices don’t interfere with each other the way they do on traditional WiFi bands. Pictured right is the image of a demo I watched with a full 1080p movie playing on a wireless device across to a laptop, which in turn was re-broadcasting it in realtime wirelessly to a display. It ran without missing a beat, even when they spun the laptop around and hid it under the furniture. Wilocity also demoed a wireless connection to an SSD hard drive enclosed in stereo furniture which maxed out at over 1Gbps, as measured at the operating system level using a Windows disk drive benchmarking utility.

Initially, WiGig will likely be integrated as a high-end upgrade for WiFi on new laptops and other computers — with the chips only costing a few dollars more in quantity than current WiFi chips, and also supporting backwards compatibility with current 802.11 standards and even Bluetooth. Best yet, they are designed to be form factor compatible with current WiFi modules. Over time it is likely other devices will get connected this way too. One obvious market is high-performance peripherals for ultrabooks, netbooks, tablets, and phones, which don’t have the connector space or power to support wired devices.
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