Gbit/Second 802.11n Chipsets Offering blazing wireless speed to the dark corners of your network... A company by the name of Quantenna is hoping to help you bring speedier Wi-Fi to those pesky areas of your home where the network just won't reach (like that far corner of the dungeon you've hidden under the stairwell). The startup, flush with $27 million in VC cash, aims to create chipsets for routers and small, inexpensive in-home repeaters that can amplify the range of existing Wi-Fi networks. The chips obviously operate in the 2.4 or 5 Ghz bands, comply with the 802.11N spec, and include MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) antenna technology. Using 4x4 MIMO, mesh technologies and beam forming, the company claims they can offer aggregate throughput of up to a Gbit/second. Those dark corners of your Wi-Fi network will never be the same.
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 | | hmmm... Please don't get my hopes up falsely. I hate wires.
The future is here? | |
|  | | | Re: hmmm... You can never get rid of wires completely because that is the only most reliable medium. | |
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | Meh Regular 802.11n is around 250Mbit theoretical so 4X MIMO means they're just doing the same thing that was happening in with 802.11g and a which is using more than one channel for a single device. Therefore it won't be compatible at these speeds with anything except this vendor's products. | |
|  alphapointeDon't Touch MePremium,MVM
join:2002-02-10
Columbia, MO
kudos:2 | Sounds great... ...while beating the piss out of every other wireless network within 1000 yards, I'll bet. | |
| mpteach
join:2003-11-22
Manchester, CT | aggregate Notice the word aggregate!With beamforming it is probably talking to multiple client in oppostite directions with the combines spead reaching a megabit before overhead. | |
| | | Another Pump & Dump Company In the 802.11a/g/b days, these news about "blazing" speeds were monthly occurances. I bet it's the same people doing it once again. There's always a sucker with too much money and greedy enough (thinking of a big return) to "invest" in such a company. Perhaps, the investors are hoping for the exact same thing, and most "know" it's a scam but invest in it nevertheless, hoping to dump the investment later on+a hefty profit. | |
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