Wilocity and Atheros Communications today announced a partnership to build tri-band wireless solutions that will operate on the 2.4-, 5.0,- and 60GHz frequency bands. Wilocity has been developing 60GHz technology for three years. Atheros is a major player in the dual-band IEEE 802.11n chipset market.
Both companies have seats on the WiGig Alliance’s board of directors and contributed to the draft standard for wireless networking using the 60GHz frequency band the alliance announced on May 10. The alliance is also contributing ideas to the IEEE Task Group AD, which is working on the IEEE 802.11ad but it’s not taking any chances that the standards body will move quickly enough to enable standardized 60GHz products to reach retail shelves on a timely basis.
