Every Wi-Fi user appreciates a faster connection. The IEEE 802.11ax draft standard promises better range, throughput and resiliency.

The most recent version of the IEEE’s wireless local-area network (WLAN) standard, 802.11ac, uses the 5-GHz unlicensed band and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to significantly boost data speeds ...

The first thing you need to know about IEEE 802.11ac—the latest wireless networking standard—is that the standard isn’t actually finished. Today’s 802.11ac routers are based on a second draft. Early ...

The first smartphones supporting the new WLAN standard IEEE 802.11ac will soon be in the hands of consumers, allowing users to experience significantly higher data transmission rates. Although users ...

The standard offers theoretical speeds ranging from 6.5 Mbps to 866.7 Mbps. There is always another standard coming. This one focused on high throughput wireless networks. It is the IEEE standard ...

Six months from now, enterprise IT groups will be facing a big change for their Wi-Fi networks: the shift to 802.11ac, which promises wireless data rates that start at 433Mbps. But what’s on paper and ...

Wireless LAN, driven by the forthcoming IEEE 802.11ac standard, is poised for significant growth as Wi-Fi capabilities are added to a host of product categories ranging from automobiles to ...

Quantenna Communications rolled out the industry's first 802.11ax product called QSR10G-AX. This product is built on Quantenna's QSR10G Wave 3 Wi-Fi platform and adds support for the draft 1.0 of the ...

Gigabit-speed wireless LAN products based on the emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard will start shipping next year and usher Wi-Fi into its next era of high speed and long range, communications chip maker ...

We’ve been hearing about 802.11ac wireless for some time now, with many developers including support for the higher-speed Wi-Fi in a variety of new products. It’s becoming fairly apparent that ...

Broadcom plans to bring IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi to smartphones starting early next year, using a chipset announced on Tuesday that the company said can deliver about 300Mbps (bits per second) of ...

Wireless Local-area Networks were first introduced in 1997 with IEEE 802.11. The IEEE 802.11 protocol provided wireless link speeds of 2 Mbps. As time went on and bandwidth increased so did the ...