Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba to deliver 60GHz wireless products in 2H 2010
By Richard Lai 
posted February 1st 2010 10:25AM
posted February 1st 2010 10:25AM
The year's 2010, yet we're still leering at the dusty pile of cables behind our AV equipment and wondering, "O UWB, where art thou?" Well, the folks at Tech-On have got a little update for us: Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba are reported to be delivering products donning 60GHz wireless chips -- which sip little juice but churn out 7GHz of colossal bandwidth and 1.5Gbps of data rate -- in the second half of this year. While none of the manufacturers are directly pimping either WirelessHD or WiGig, it appears that Hitachi and Panasonic are siding with WiGig's extra functionalities like media access control (MAC), and the latter even envisions "embedding the functionality into portable gear" for downloading digital content from kiosks. Either way, it's nice to see some progress here -- we don't want things to drag on any longer, do we?
wow 1.5g is even fasten than ethernet.
@magallanes Of course it is.
Ethernet is 10 Mbps
Fast Ethernet is 100 Mbps
Gigabit Ethernet is 1/10/100 Gbps.
Considering how none of the original wireless specifications for consumer wireless have met their goals what makes you think this other consumer spec will?
@magallanes A wired connection will ALWAYS be faster and "better".
The aim should not be for wireless to replace wires everywhere, just where it is necessary, or useful.
I don't know about you, but in my Home Theatre, everything stays put! It's a rare site to find me batting away speakers with my TV shouting "Wahoo! Huzzah for wireless!!"
@magallanes
but most networks are 10/100mbps. I known that exist +1000mbps but the cost is prohibitive even for small and medium companies.
The advantage of cable is that you can use a switch, i.e. full speed in every node.
@magallanes
Well maybe for us little peons it is the fastest we can realistically buy but you can buy 10g Ethernet equipment it's mostly used in large companies and even a 100g spec is in the works...
It's about time I start wrapping my house in foil, 'cuz the outer world turns into one big microwave oven.
Ummm yeah, I thought that 60GHz was in the microwave range! Can we just lay the Jiffy-Pop on the BluRay for a 5-minute tasty treat?
@gus2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation
@gus2000 yes it is in the microwave range... but it's not to be confused with microwave oven (even if they operate on similar frequencies), that's not what their talking about here.
It's a MICRO-wave because of its length (m).
good, I can skip 11n
@htd Uh, if you're on 802.11g and looking at this post - surely the next logical step is 5GHz?
@FORDY many 5Ghz solutions interfere with 802.11, making it hard to have both running in one home, per say. An efficient way to potentially set this up would be to run data networks on 802.11 and home A/V on 60Ghz, which presents no interference issues...until, one solid standard really proves they can do it all
How far does it go, 1 meter?
@mcc 60Ghz goes up to a verified10 metres - as shown by sibeam and wirelesshd, It can go up to 30metres however, but it's not promoted yet as such.
@nicaloops
Interesting. I would have thought that such a high frequency signal would dissipate more easily than that. Still not far, but usable.
A wired connection will ALWAYS be faster and "better".
The aim should not be for wireless to replace wires everywhere, just where it is necessary, or useful.
I don't know about you, but in my Home Theatre, everything stays put! It's a rare site to find me batting away speakers with my TV shouting "Wahoo! Huzzah for wireless!!"
@FORDY bah, sorry for double post. Couldn't get it to work.
Damn Safari...
Now I just wait for Intel to deliver 60Ghz processor products.
I'm a home theater installer for a well known company in Canada, and a customer had purchased a Rocketfish Wireless hdmi kit. Worked surprisingly well. I could detect no wireless delays or glitches. Customer wanted all the componants across the room from the tv and this setup was rather elegant.
@(Unverified) Go 60Ghz, that adapter is WirelessHD... :)
It's about time !
I need to get my microwave oven replaced ! With this, I can probably "cook-and-surf" at the same time !
no, your microwave oven runs near 2.4ghz.
it also pumps out 1000watts or so, so this 60ghz sub watt transmitter might heat a few molecules of air, but that's it.
60ghz and 7ghz of bandwidth makes it seem plausible that 1.5gbps is acheiveable.
the 7ghz of spectrum means they could chop it up into sub channels for device sharing, or allow them to send more bits per network clock.
but how is the range on the signal? 5 GHz wireless tends not to penetrate as far as 2.4 GHz.
Yeah
Sexy fast internet! =D
Most 802.11b/g routers have AT MAX 100Mw... Usually 70mW. 7GHz of bandwidth ? 802.11b/g = ~20MHz of bandwidth, N = 20 or 40MHz.
Also 60GHz will have basically NO wall penetration. The higher the freq, the less penetration. Thats why 5GHz does not cover the same area as 2.4GHz indoors.