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Draft 802.11n Standard Fails To Pass
By Larry Hendrick | May 3, 2006
This is not a surprising happening with the first mail-out ballot, and was expected. The problem concerns the changing standard as it moves through to acceptance and the units currently sold by several manufacturers. If the standards change enough, these PRE-N units may not work with the final equipment. Buyer beware, is all I’m sayin’.
Draft 802.11n Standard Fails To Pass
A draft version of the 802.11n standard failed to pass a first ballot on Tuesday, leading existing 802.11n vendor Airgo to criticize existing “pre-802.11n” products that have already shipped.Although the 802.11n working group informally compromised on a draft standard in January, the forty-day letter ballot period closed Tuesday without a formal 75 percent approval of the Draft Standard 1.0. Forty-six percent of the voters approved the draft, according to members.
The backwards-compatible 802.11n standard was designed to gradually replace today’s Wi-Fi, with theoretical throughputs of about 300-Mbits/s, far faster than the 54 Mbits/s that the current 802.11g standard offers today.
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