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Wi-Fi Companies to Work Together on New, Faster Standard

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 11, 2005 - 7:03am.
London - Twenty-seven Wi-Fi companies announced that they have agreed to work together on a new Wi-Fi standard that will make the technology go faster and further. The standard -- which follows the 802.11a, b and g standards -- is known as 802.11n. It will have superior reach and be two to 10 times faster than current standards. The companies that support the standard have formed a group call the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which includes wireless chipmakers Broadcom and Intel, laptop makers Lenovo, Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. and network equipment maker Cisco. Not everyone has embraced the new standard, however; Airgo, a U.S.-based Wi-Fi technology vendor, and Nokia, a Finland-based mobile giant, have complained that the group is simply trying to force through the standard they are already planning to build.
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