Comments on: New Wi-Fi standard delayed again

The long-awaited 802.11n Wi-Fi standard that will speed up wireless access won't likely be finalized until 2008.

[jacomo]

WHo Benefits From this Delay??

This is the question the Service Providers and customers need to be asking the manufacturers of these Pre-N chips and those who are leading the drive to deploy WiMAX mobile systems in the market.
One might notice that Intel, though a leader in the initial go around for the 802.11n standard and a driver behind the break away effort to stop a very successful effort by Airgo to provide a solid standard chip in this space is no longer mentioned in any of these articles.
The Atheros and Broadcom of the world have picked up this misguided effort, providing cover for and freeing Intel to focus on its WiMAX plans, and are creating a major problem for all service providers and customer who want to be able to use their standards based (802.11a/b/g) Wireless devices both at home and while Mobile/Portable on these new Metro Area Wireless Mesh networks.

Keep in mind that a solid 802.11n product interoperating with the ubiquitos 802.11a/b/g radios would effectively obviate the need for many of the features a WiMAX product brings to a Customer Access device.

The WiFi Alliance should be raising hell over this delay and should come out and state that non of these Pre-N devices meet any 802.11xxx interoperability standards.

Jacomo

[disco-legend-zeke]

except for one feature: CARRIER PROFITS

the last mile is free

[domcelyea]

This Really Sucks

I see we are still acting like a third world country. It's pretty bad that some countries with less technology than we have are running higher speed broadband services.

[Lucky Lou]

Committees

This is what happens when you let everyone have a say in a
process. It takes forever because every last detail has to be debated
ad nauseum. Meanwhile days, weeks, months, and years go by. All
the while they could have ratified a decent standard and gone to
work on a better technology that would have been ready by the
time this committe finishes their process on the first standard.
What's the point?

[disco-legend-zeke]

expect the carriers to block final 802.11N standard

the manufacturers are already cranking out their doom.

Once a radio has software controlled hardware with multiple antennas additional changes will be driver and firmware upgrades anyhoo.

The key point RADIO WAVES DO NOT INTERFERE WITH EACH OTHER. infinite bandwidth is possible once the receiver can apply digital intelligence to the signal input matrix. and since the radios cooperate, the more nodes in the mesh, the faster the speed becomes.

it's movable type all over again.