A version of this article also appeared in the June 2012 issue of Test & Measurement World. See the PDF. IEEE 802.11ac is a new draft WLAN standard being integrated into devices. The manufacturing of ...

Wireless Local-area Networks were first introduced in 1997 with IEEE 802.11. The IEEE 802.11 protocol provided wireless link speeds of 2 Mbps. As time went on and bandwidth increased so did the ...

Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passé. Although the official 802.11ac specification won’t be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on ...

Faster Wi-Fi: It's something we all crave. Fortunately, it's also something we can have, even on a budget. It's not just about fast Internet speeds to and from your service provider. It's also about ...

The first routers based on the first draft of the next-generation wi-fi standard, 802.11ac, appeared at CES in 2012, sporting multiple antennas (the technical term is MIMO, standing for Multiple Input ...

A question we’re hearing with increasing frequency concerns the upcoming 802.11ac standard, which promises to do to 802.11n what .11n did to .11g. While the IEEE 802.11ac standard likely won’t be ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To address congestion and the need for higher throughout speeds in wireless LANs, the IEEE's ...

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Marvell introduced the Avastar 88W8864, a 802.11ac 4x4 SoC, a wireless local area network (WLAN) system-on-chip (SoC) and the industry’s first 802.11ac 4x4 solution built to improve the throughput of ...

Gigabit Wi-Fi, 802.11ac, is officially here, but what does that really mean? Here's my list of the five things you need to know before you invest in this new wireless technology. 1) 802.11ac is not ...