Hammacher Homepage 300x250“The IEEE has recently begun the first steps of voting on a major improvement to Wi-Fi standards due in two years,” Electronista reports.

“The 802.11ac standard should upgrade 802.11a to use 80MHz or even 160MHz channels that provide much more bandwidth than today,” Electronista reports. “Combined with about a 10 percent increase in efficiency for modulating the actual frequencies, the speedup should improve the theoretical transfer speeds to as much as 1Gbps, or more than three times the 300Mbps 802.11n reaches for now.”

Electronista reports, “The technology should become usable as a draft standard in late 2011 and should be completely approved by December 2012.”

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