WiGig To Be The Fastest Wireless Data Transmission Technology

The Wireless Gigabit Alliance are almost ready for the introduction of the next generation wireless communication technology, which boasts of data transfers at 7Gbps and a working spectrum of 60GHz.

The WiGig Alliance is an association formed in May by companies like Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Samsung, Panasonic. Nvidia, Chinese certification lab TMC, SK Telecom and AMD had joined in later, with Nvidia getting involved at board level, and the rest, as contributing members.

The first version of the WiGig technology standard was announced a few days back. The publishing should happen soon as well. The standards are being reviewed by members and the first quarter of 2010 might see this technology being implemented in devices.

With the WiGig technology, devices like mobile phones, TVs, laptops, PCs, digital cameras, Blu Ray drives and many more consumer products will be able to communicate with each other, without wires, at high speeds (supposedly 7Gbps). This technology is backward compatible with 802.11n WiFi standard and might also be a successor to it. The WiFi 802.11n standard offers speeds of 600Mbps. Even the range over which this novel technology will work is expected to be above 10m.

Bluetooth 3.0 was supposed to give some promising speeds for inter-device wireless communication (480Mbps). However, the closing down of the WiMedia Alliance, the developer and promoter of ultrawideband technology, caused the Bluetooth 3.0 speed to be stunted at 24Mbps. Therefore it is the WiGig technology that seems like the next big thing in wireless communication currently.