{"id":22524,"date":"2013-01-17T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T00:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T02:02:09","slug":"wigig-wi-fi-join-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wigig-wi-fi-join-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"WiGig, Wi-Fi Join Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WiGig,<\/a>Wireless Week<\/em><\/a> is reporting<\/a> that the Wireless Gigabit Alliance<\/a> (WiGig<\/a>) and the Wi-Fi Alliance<\/a> have joined forces. According to the article, the Wi-Fi<\/a> Alliance and WiGig Alliance have collaborated for over two years on the WiGig Alliance’s work to develop an interoperability certification for 60GHz products.<\/p>\n

\"Wi-Fi<\/a>Wi-Fi Alliance President and CEO Edgar Figueroa said in a statement<\/a> that the 60GHz technology has been an important highlight in the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification roadmap for some time. “Combining the expertise of Wi-Fi Alliance and WiGig Alliance will deliver a terrific user experience with 60 GHz solutions, and will help ensure that a full range of interoperable WiGig solutions reach the market as quickly as possible,<\/em>” Mr. Figueroa said in a statement.<\/p>\n

WiGig operates in the unlicensed 60 MHz band and offers short-range multi-gigabit connections with speeds up to 7 Gbps. FierceBroadbandWireless<\/em><\/a> reports<\/a> that early applications will include ultrabooks and peripherals. WiGig offers short-range multi-gigabit connections for applications ranging from high-definition WiGig Display Extensions<\/a> (WDE) to peripheral connectivity and I\/O cable replacement such as WiGig Serial Extension (WSE), WiGig Bus Extension (WBE), and WiGig SDIO Extension (WDS<\/a>). Tablets will then include the technology, primarily for media streaming, and smartphones will drive more widespread WiGig adoption from 2015 on according to ABI Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"60ghz<\/p>\n

Its major limitation is the extremely high 60 GHz frequencies it uses, which limits its connections to near-line-of-sight within a single room. Signals in the 57\u201364 GHz region are subject to a resonance of the oxygen molecule and are severely attenuated.<\/p>\n

\"WiGig<\/a>Early 60 GHz implementations based on the WiGig specifications are entering the market now, and ABI Research forecasts that by 2016, annual shipments of devices with both Wi-Fi and WiGig technology will reach 1.8 billion units.<\/p>\n

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