Wireless VoIP May Improve with New Wireless Standard802.11r officially published after four years in the works
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old news - 11:26AM Sunday Aug 31 2008)
tags: wireless · alternatives · VoIPThe IEEE standards body has officially
published the Wi-Fi protocol 802.11r, something that has been in the works since 2004 and was finally approved by the body earlier this year. The new protocol is designed to allow for quick roaming between access points while maintaining security. Handoffs between access points that used to take seconds (and result in dropped calls) can now take place in less than fifty milliseconds. This improves connections between multiple private networks but is particularly beneficial to
Wireless VoIP. Many believe that the publication of this standard will increase the widespread use of VoIP-on-the-go; however, others say that the cost of deploying 802.11 routers will prevent 802.11r from being useful as anything but an
enterprise solution.
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N Stands for Not Ready Yet
What better way for the wireless network industry to weasel the consumer into replacing their hardware every six months. By not having a final standard for 802.11n and changing the preliminary standards on a regular basis one must replace their hardware regularly in order to have the fastest throughput. Last months N client may not work with next months N access point.
