NetStumbler http://www.netstumbler.com The award-winning wireless networking tool and the best source for your daily Wi-Fi, WiMAX, 3G and VoIP news. Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:52:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Intel Bumps Centrino Wi-Fi To 802.11n http://www.netstumbler.com/2007/01/30/intel-bumps-centrino-wi-fi-to-80211n/ http://www.netstumbler.com/2007/01/30/intel-bumps-centrino-wi-fi-to-80211n/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:06:00 +0000 Eliza Villarino http://www.netstumbler.com:8080/?p=98 Intel is upgrading its Centrino Duo laptops’ wireless component to enable connection based on the recently approved draft 802.11n specification. The company plans to offer an 802.11 a/b/g/Draft-N PCIe Minicard network adapter card that can work on both the 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz spectra. It claimed that the new device can improve performance five-fold and double the wireless range of the earlier 802.11 a/g technologies. The adapter, Intel further stated, also offers an extra hour of battery life as compared to similar products.

Meanwhile, because of the early approval by the IEEE 802.11 working group of Draft 2.0, the 802.11n’s schedule has been changed. Final approval of the draft is due by the end of January, with voting expected by the end of March. The panel plans to work on Draft 3.0 and have it approved by June. With the endorsement of 75 percent of members, the draft could be the basis for the final standard, which is likely to be ratified by October 2008.
Via [extremetech.com]

]]> http://www.netstumbler.com/2007/01/30/intel-bumps-centrino-wi-fi-to-80211n/feed/ 0 Intel To Add Prestandard 802.11n To Centrino In ’07 http://www.netstumbler.com/2006/12/13/intel-to-add-prestandard-80211n-to-centrino-in-07/ http://www.netstumbler.com/2006/12/13/intel-to-add-prestandard-80211n-to-centrino-in-07/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:11:00 +0000 Eliza Villarino http://www.netstumbler.com:8080/?p=136 At the IEEE Globecom 2006 Expo in San Francisco, Intel announced plans to integrate a pre-802.11n technology in its Centrino chips next year. The 802.11n standard, which promises better performance than the current WiFi technology, is not likely to be ratified until the first half of 2008.

Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney expressed concerns regarding decisions like that by Intel. He said that a prestandard version might function well in homes where it is deployed as a closed looped technology but could bring interoperability issues in enterprises that have heterogeneous wireless infrastructure.

At that same gathering, Intel officials promoted Ultra Wideband or UWB. Alan Crouch, who heads Intel’s Communications Technology Lab, expects the short range wireless technology to start gaining acceptance in 2007 and become popular in the consumer market. Crouch believes UWB will become a future version of Bluetooth. David Leeper, senior principal engineer for UWB at Intel, claimed UWB “can do video streaming at very low power.” He said downloading a full-length movie through UWB would only take 80 seconds.
Via [computerworld.com]

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