EETimes.com – Next-gen Wi-Fi standard remains in limbo
With the IEEE making no conclusive decision Thursday on which of the primary proposals for the 802.11n specification it would embrace, the stage is set for a compromise proposal encompassing aspects of both proposals.
In a meeting in Atlanta Thursday, 180 voters, or 56 percent, supported the Task Group N (TGnSync) proposal, compared to 44 percent for the WWiSE (World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency) proposal.
I understand how these meetings procede and I think you need something like the 75% acceptance to develop a genuine standard — instead of negotiated settlement. As a consumer it’s still pretty frustrating to wait for that next-gen solution to problems facing some mixed networks.
Phew!
It’s Sunday here. You’ll get here in a few hours. Maybe they’ll invent a time machine before wi-fi moves along.
From NASA
Did you know?
Using less wattage than a small light bulb, spacecraft cruising beyond Pluto send signals back to Earth that are picked up by the massive Deep Space Network satellite dishes.
You would think robust, secure wi-fi would be fairly simple.