Enhanced Wireless Consortium proposes unified 802.11n standard
posted Oct 10th 2005 5:30PM
With the electronics industry seemingly always afightin' and afeudin', it's heart-warming to see companies occasionally come together to standardize future protocols. The latest feel-good love-in we've seen comes as an attempt to nail down the specs of next-gen WiFi standard 802.11n, in the form of the Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC). This group, composed of such heavy-hitters as Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, Intel, Linksys, Sony, and US Robotics, has just submitted a proposal to the IEEE (the governing body in these matters) calling for 600 Mbps transmission rates, while leaving the door open for other vague additions such as Space Time Block Coding and beamforming. As is usually the case with these types of alliances, EWC member companies were quick to publicly pat each other on the back while secretly hoping (we imagine) for one another's downfall.
that picture in the blurb totally made me laugh out loud. engadget makes technology fun!
What are Apple going to do now? How much more hyperbole can you get than Airport Extreme. Airport SuperMega?
Yeah, the picture reminds me of what a Polyphonic Spree concert would be like.
Fishes,
narco.
#2: Airport Insane
(just like the 3 presets from the LAME mp3 encoder: standard, extreme and insane.)
:O I think i see Jesus in the picture!
I agree, Engadget's been absolutely hilarious today, though perhaps to compensate for the B.S. flash ad promising a free Nano (yeah, right...) that prevents me from using my scroll wheel on the site and keeps crashing Firefox. Way to go, guys...
What the picture doesn't show is Airgo off in the corner by itself.
"Space Time Block Coding" - best tech jargon ever!
engadget, for the love of god, please take the "free ipod" ad down. i'm sure you're getting "click through" revenue, but it's not fooling anyone.
i went through it just to see what it was all about, and it tries to get you to complete six offers, and then it takes you to the freeipods.com site.
i know freeipods.com works (i got 3 myself last year), but the fact that this one makes you complete six offers before even taking you to the freeipods.com site is ridiculous. plus the ad is really annoying.
For this being a "feel-good love-in," I've read quite a bit suggesting that certain companies will develop this technology (in their own way) even without the IEEE backing it as a universal standard. This would make is such that multiple wireless technologies would be available and incompatible with each other... really confusing the consumer.
http://www.computers.net
For this being a "feel-good love-in," I've read quite a bit suggesting that certain companies will develop this technology (in their own way) even without the IEEE backing it as a universal standard. This would make is such that multiple wireless technologies would be available and incompatible with each other... really confusing the consumer.
http://www.computers.net