2010, Gigabit Wi-Fi

IEEE is responsible for maintaining all of the wireless standard specification announced that While 802.11n specification is still not finished, the two groups of researchers have started developing a new generation of wireless that can rival the speed gigabit ethernet connections offered today. They have each submitted a proposal that will be called the standard IEEE 802.11 VHT (Very High Throughput) that operate in the two-channel frequency, 60GHz for short range and 6GHz for the use of distance learning.

Although both proposals are still not officially approved by IEEE, the researchers are optimistic that this proposal will be approved. If the proposal is approved, the wireless data transfer speed will increase dramatically. Although the 802.11n standard that says the maximum speed of 802.11n can achieve 300Mbps, but in practice a variety of network devices' pre-n 'that already exist today only able to reach speeds around 100 Mbps depending on network traffic.

802.11 VHT proposals aim to create products 1Gbps speed minimum so that the maximum speed specification akan higher again. Tushar Moorti, director of the division WLAN Broadcom said that "for now we want the minimum speed of 500Mbps for each link and each access point device that supports VHT is able to use multiple links at once so the total speed will be far more than 1Gbps."

Craig Mathias, one of the leaders of Farpoint Group also provides input on a very optimistic, saying that "we will see VHT standard in two years, and WLAN products with more speed of 1 Gbps will appear in three starts this year," according to the prediction that I a bit too positive because the specification Wi-Max which was developed in 2004, also up to now still not yet finished. VHT proposal submitted to the IEEE own target 2012 or 2013, but already a lot of wireless technology vendors that have participated actively in this project, including Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, Motorola and Nortel. (Network World)

Update: as said agin, 802.11n specification differs from WiMAX (802.16x specification). 802.11n wireless LAN technology is to replace the function of the ethernet and wireless technology, WiMAX is a wireless WAN to expand network coverage as wide ribbon cable or DSL.