Archive for the ‘2.4 GHz’ Category

IEEE 802.11 working on successor to 802.11ax

Monday, July 16th, 2018

Last Friday the IEEE 802 Executive Committee approved Working Group 802.11’s request to form an Extreme High Throughput (EHT) Study Group. This means there’s sufficient interest to work toward launching a more-formal EHT standard-development project, which will likely happen after the Study Group’s work is complete.

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Concurrent multi-band Wi-Fi floated in IEEE 802.11

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

A proposal for concurrent multi-band Wi-Fi was brought into the most recent meeting of working group IEEE 802.11. Similar to how mobile broadband can use multiple bands at the same time, the proposal would allow a Wi-Fi connection to use the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands simultaneously. Data would be split based on instantaneous channel conditions.

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