The Wi-Fi 802.11x has been evolving over the past years with revisions like b, g and n .
Now for the fourth time , IEEE is planning a major revision to the standard which will be called 802.11-2012 .
The new standard will operate in different frequency range of 3.65GHz to 3.7GHz and , while the current standards operate either on 2.4GHz or 5GHz .
802.11-2012 is also expected to raise the speed to 600Mbps throughput . The PHY (physical layer) and MAC (a software layer) components of 802.11-2012 will be reworked to provide that impressive speed. Those changes will also allow for new additions like "mesh" networking, direct-link setup, changes in security, broadcast/multicast/unicast data delivery and additional network management features.
The current 802.11n standard can achieve 600Mbps throughput , but to do so , it requires MIMO technology to aggregate four multiplexed streams .
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Now for the fourth time , IEEE is planning a major revision to the standard which will be called 802.11-2012 .
The new standard will operate in different frequency range of 3.65GHz to 3.7GHz and , while the current standards operate either on 2.4GHz or 5GHz .
802.11-2012 is also expected to raise the speed to 600Mbps throughput . The PHY (physical layer) and MAC (a software layer) components of 802.11-2012 will be reworked to provide that impressive speed. Those changes will also allow for new additions like "mesh" networking, direct-link setup, changes in security, broadcast/multicast/unicast data delivery and additional network management features.
The current 802.11n standard can achieve 600Mbps throughput , but to do so , it requires MIMO technology to aggregate four multiplexed streams .
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