WiGig makes home networking steam.

With a Wi-Fi is the number of cables in the apartment already reduced. Large amounts of data, such as those for HD movies are incurred, but still need a relatively long time to make their way through the network. An alliance of 17 leading companies will now use a new standard for speed care.

 

The large flat screen TV shows a movie in HD quality - fresh from the internet. Although the screen with a cable connected to the router, it is the film without a long wait or annoying Jerkiness view. Still, this kind of wireless bulk data transfer a vision, but the Gigabit Wireless Alliance is working on this home network to realize the future.

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The alliance includes 17 IT-companies - including computer manufacturers like Dell, software companies like Microsoft and mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia. They have joined forces to under the name "WiGig" a standard to develop the new standards in the wireless data to set.

If everything runs smoothly, is in the fall of the Wi-Fi standard
IEEE 802.11n finally adopted and so in wireless data networks of the turbo on. Den-WiGig visionaries whose performance is still not long enough. It reached the n-standard currently transfer rates of up to 300 Mbit / s - that's compared to 54 Mbps in the currently-used standard g-a quantum leap. But WiGig, the threshold of one Gbps overcome in the top of a data volume of up to six gigabit per second forward. The contents of a DVD would then be sent in 15 seconds.

Possible to be the high-speed transmission via WiGig by the data frequencies in the range of 60 gigahertz used. There is a frequency band available, which is much wider than the current Wi-Fi transmission ranges used in the 2.4 GHz and 5-GHz band. The broader the frequency band is, the faster we can download and send data.

Disturbing walls

Until wireless home networks in accordance with standards WiGig stable functioning is, however, still some time. By the end of the year to the members of the alliance WiGig specifications to understand the new standards. Machines with the new logo should be, are not expected before 2010.

Previously, the partners must solve some technical problems. For example, radio frequency transmissions in the 60-GHz band, so far only safe if no walls between the transmitter and receiver are available. Even the data objects can obstruct. High transfer rates are almost always in sight connections to reach. The computer manufacturer IBM, which is not in the list of wireless gigabit Allies stands, in 2006 had developed a system, the transmitter in each room provided.

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A Wi-Fi radio, however, through walls and bridges Funk longer distances. For devices in one or two rooms to be networked, but WiGig will suffice. Meanwhile, other techniques jostle for position as the standard for high-performance data in the apartment: WirelessHD has been around, as well as wireless HDMI, designed to set-top boxes and Blu-ray player to the TV to connect.

Ali Sadri, chairman of the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, sees WiGig but not in direct competition with techniques such as WirelessHD. The larger aim is not just television, but also mobile phones, video cameras and PCs to connect.