Electronics.ca Publications - Wireless Gigabit Alliance Announcement Could Shake Up Wireless HD Video Market

Store this angel in big sizeFor a bazaar that is just emerging, there is a abundant accord traveling on with wireless HD video technologies. UWB Chip companies targeting this market, including Tzero Technologies and Radiospire Networks, are closing their doors. Within 802.11n, start-ups like Celeno, Quantenna, Ruckus and Cavium are aggressive with accustomed Wi-Fi players to move that technology into the HD space. And there are start-ups such as SiBeam and AMIMON ablution new multi-Gigabit wireless technologies into the CE space. On top of all this came an advertisement today of yet addition amateur in the wireless HD video space: the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance.

The WiGig Alliance’s ambition is to body a top abstracts amount wireless arrangement that will beset PC, CE and adaptable devices. Its purpose is to address the all consumer’s abstracts today, whether ample files in the PC cluster, or streamed video in the CE cluster, to anywhere in the home.

The WiGig Alliance intends to use 60GHz technology to accomplish their goal, added accurately a 9GHz casting about 60GHz. Its advantages cover top throughput capability, a sparsely acclimated allocation of the spectrum, which allows for little arrest with added wireless technologies, and low latency, with no encoding necessary. They intend to abstain the concrete arrest issues inherent at top frequencies with axle basic technology and antenna diversity.

The WiGig Alliance’s mission is to actualize a 60GHz accepted on a common basis. Its goals include:

Ensuring a assorted set of semiconductor manufacturers, which has been a check of added high-bandwidth technologies that accept emerged over the accomplished few years.


Drive accelerated adoption.


Ensure interoperability.


Co-exist with accepted wireless technologies.


The ultimate ambition of the WiGig Alliance is that the technology is that it be “fast, accepted and efficient”.

Charter associates of the accord include: Atheros, Broadcom, Dell, Intel, LG Electronics, Marvell, Microsoft, Mediatek, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung and Wilocity. The associates spans the technology world, and includes assembly of the CE, PC and adaptable segments. With a amount of Wi-Fi cavity vendors in the membership, it seems analytic that they would re-use elements of Wi-Fi technology, if possible.

The accepted ambition of the alignment is advertisement of the WiGig blueprint by the end of 2009, with interoperability testing alpha in 2010. The WiGig blueprint will cover PHY and MAC cavity technology as able-bodied as Protocol Application Layers, or accomplishing software.

The WiGig Alliance is an absorbing alignment -- on paper. The ample array of accustomed companies indicates that it’s an alignment to be taken actual seriously. However, the alley to WiGig silicon in articles on the bazaar is a continued way off, conceivably as continued as two years. In the meantime, 60GHz silicon is currently accessible from SiBeam, and AMIMON aswell has a wireless HD manual cavity technology on the market.

Because of the bound ambit inherent in top abundance technologies, WiGig will apparently be an in-room technology, although they affirmation they ambition to affix accessories wirelessly throughout the home. 60GHz artlessly does not currently accept the ambit to accomplish whole-home transmission, and application WiGig technology abandoned to accomplish this will be a Herculean task, acceptable acute the use of some blazon of captive technology in the home. If the plan is to actualize a whole-home arrangement with a aggregate of 60GHz and Wi-Fi, it seems added acceptable to succeed, and conceivably explains the attendance of Wi-Fi cavity vendors in the Alliance.

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