Posted 10/13/09 at 08:18:15 PM by Ryan Whitwam

Don’t get all cozy with your Bluetooth 2.1 products just yet. There is another standard on the horizon that aims to take over your wireless life. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is touting a report that indicates 23 percent of Bluetooth equipped devices will run the new 3.0+HS standard by late 2010. This is expected to rise to 61 percent by 2011.

Bluetooth 3.0 was adopted on April 21 of this year. The new standard includes support for Alternative MAC/PHY (AMP) transport. AMP allows Bluetooth devices to use the 802.11 protocol for large data transfers. Additional power management technologies are expected to increase reliability as well. Circulation will start with external USB dongles for desktop and notebook PCs very soon.

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Posted 09/14/09 at 05:54:57 PM by Andy Salisbury

After a long seven years of development and tweaking, the IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard.

The new standard, which is reportedly capable of throughput of 300Mbps, has been changed six times since its first conception. And, according to the IEEE, all existing WiFi certified 802.11 Draft N wireless products will work with the final standard.

No word as to when the standard will make its way to market.

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Posted 10/17/07 at 01:56:04 PM by Michael Brown

We test wireless routers based on Draft 2.0 of the IEEE 802.11n at Maximum PC Lab North

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Posted 05/04/07 at 02:51:51 PM by Michael Brown

When you shop for new technology, you should be aware that some standards are more standard than others.

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