NTT demonstrates next-gen 802.11ac wireless system

The Wi-Fi Alliance has been working to push wireless speeds into gigabit territory for a couple of years now, and it appears that Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo is on board to make this a reality. During the Wireless Technology Park event in Yokohama City, NTT demonstrated a prototype 802.11ac Wi-Fi implementation, and though there's still work to be done towards faster speeds in multi-user scenarios the company is working to have it ready by 2013.
Currently, higher speeds are being achieved with a single receiver, whereas in the three-user setup demonstrated by NTT the speed was dropped to 120Mbps per user at the same time. The wireless transmission was realized by using a space divisi... »read more

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