Motorola joins WWiSE to standardize 802.11n
By Ryan Block 
posted March 7th 2005 3:31PM
posted March 7th 2005 3:31PM
Looks like Motorola's not throwing in the towel yet with their 100+Mbps 802.11n WiFi network proposal—in fact they've joined forces with the World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) consortium and merged proposals. Now two remain, in one camp is WWiSE, backed by Broadcom, Buffalo Technology, Conexant, Texas Instruments, and now Motorola; in the other is TGn Sync, backed by Atheros, Cisco, Intel, Nokia, and Qualcomm. Two go into the IEEE for draft standard ratification… one comes out—not that we'll be seing properly finalized 802.11n standards until 2007, or so it's estimated. So bring on the pre-802.11n gear!
Batten down the hatches for another ugly standards battle. The availability of pre-ratification gear will only make matters worse.
Manufacturers never seem to learn from history. Neither do we, for we buy into it every time.
Carmi
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