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Samsung's Futuristic Wi-Fi Tech Is Five Times Faster Than Today's Wireless Networks
Samsung says the Wi-Fi technology it is developing will be five times faster than today's wireless networks.
Credit: PC World
Samsung says it is developing 802.11ad Wi-Fi technology that uses the 60GHz frequency band to increase network speeds fivefold to 4.6Gbps.
Although researchers have tried to access the 60GHz frequency band for Wi-Fi before, they have found 60GHz signals cannot easily penetrate walls, which is a major problem for Wi-Fi networks. However, Kim Chang Yong, head of Samsung's DMC R&D Center, says the company has "successfully overcome the barriers to commercialization of 60GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology." Yong says the researchers overcame the barriers using "high-performance modem technologies and by developing wide-coverage beam-forming antenna."
The WirelessHD and WiGig standards groups also have been investigating beam-forming technology to boost 60GHz signal performance. The technology can detect where devices are located and then send a wireless signal directly to the device. Beam-forming technology already is being built into high-end 802.11ac routers.
However, although Samsung says it plans to commercialize the technology next year, it likely will take longer before products supporting 60GHz Wi-Fi become available.
From PCWorld
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