60GHz Tech Closer to Wireless HDMI, USB
The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has published v1.1 of its specification, and says that manufacturers will be able to test certified products in Q4 2011.
Tuesday the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) published a new version of its certification-ready multi-gigabit wireless specification, bringing it to v1.1. The announcement means that companies developing devices based on the upcoming Wi-Fi technology can test their products starting Q4 2011. The alliance also published the WiGig Bus Extension specification (WBE) and refined the WiGig Display Extension (WDE).
"We are marching toward enabling the fastest wireless technology for practical applications such as Wireless Docking, Wireless Display and Wireless Networking,” said Dr. Ali Sadri, WiGig Alliance president and chairman. “Our continued diligence in the MAC-PHY specification development process and collaboration with the Wi-Fi Alliance to build an interoperable multi-gigabit wireless solution based on our latest specification will soon provide an unprecedented user experience that changes people’s lives."
The Alliance said that both its just-published WiGig Bus Extension (WBE) and the upcoming WiGig Serial Extension (WSE) will enable multi-gigabit wireless connectivity among multiple devices (without the need for a PC) which include storage devices, high-speed peripherals and even Wireless Docking. WiGig expects to finalize and publish the WSE specifications during the second half of 2011.
On the display front, the WiGig Display Extension (WDE) now supports HDMI mapping. WDE is the only 60 GHz specification that defines a framework to connect to DisplayPort monitors and HDMI TVs, enabling key applications such as the wireless transmission of compressed or uncompressed video, the alliance said. WDE is slated to be published during the second half of 2011 as well.
“WiGig is approaching fruition and advancing quickly toward enabling WiGig-based products,” said Filomena Berardi, Market Research Analyst, IMS Research. “By providing consumers a comprehensive wireless solution designed for a diverse set of applications at multi-gigabit speeds, WiGig is delivering technology that will shape the future of 60 GHz.”
Currently the WiGig board of directors includes Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Dell, Toshiba, Panasonic, NEC, Samsung, Qualcomm and others. As of Tuesday, eight more contributors have signed on including Aeroflex, Future Technology Devices International, Institute for Infocomm Research, MET Labs, SRTC, Hittite Microwave, Rohde & Schwarz and UL CCS.
The WiGig Alliance originally finalized its technology back in 2009 and claimed it wouldn't be a competitor to Wi-Fi even though the tech enables multi-gigabit wireless communications among consumer electronics, handheld devices and PCs. And while the WiGig tech provides a throughput between 6 and 7 Gbits/sec, it uses the 60 GHz spectrum – the current generation of 802.11 a/b/g/n devices are just now entering the 5 GHz band after wading in the murky 2.4 GHz pool for years.
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this could be cool for people like my parents who cant figure out a usb plug let alone dvi-d vs dvi-i plugs
I'm glad they are finally branching into new frequencies, 2.4GHz has been getting a little crowded with different wireless devices.
Looking forward to this as well. I guess they are using the Frequencies they cleared up from over that air tv broadcasting.
So without looking at the specs, but seeing as how this tech is using 60GHz EHF, we're talking maybe 20-30 feet range, direct line of sight (unless they figured out some practical beam forming). Yeah, I don't guess crowding would be much of an issue.
Looking forward to this as well. I guess they are using the Frequencies they cleared up from over that air tv broadcasting.
This will not travel well at all. Tv broadcasts only need to be in the Mhz range to provide enough bandwidth.
I'd rather have less Ghz for more range. The router I have barely gets my entire house with it's 2.4ghz band, this is going to not even get halfway across through all the walls this house has.
This is mostly for wireless display / local device connection. Its not a competitor of WiFi because its range will be less then 30 feet direct LoS, practically we're talking 15~20 feet max. This is not for surfing the internetz, its for pushing video from your laptop / HTPC / Game console to your HDTV without needing cables. Its a wireless version of the DisplayPort connector.
Ok WTF happened to WirelessHD? Now we have WiGi?!?!?!? I'm really not in the mood for another format war. We already have DisplayPort and HDMI. Seriously pick one freaking standard and stick with it.
Also there is WHDI
If you ask me, there's already way too much data going through the air as it is!
I think people need to be made more aware of wireless pollution and the dangers of it!
So is this enough bandwidth to stream 4k HD uncompressed video and uncompressed audio at the same time? It would be nice not to need to run speaker wire and conduits to allow HDMI and its later replacements with more uneeded revisions of a piece of copper wire through the walls of my planned Home Theater.
If you ask me, there's already way too much data going through the air as it is!I think people need to be made more aware of wireless pollution and the dangers of it!
Traditional WiFi 'pollutes' the air because it beams in all directions randomly and hopes to encounter its destination along the way. This tech is different: it beams from A to B rather than in all directions. It's far less polluting in other words (unless you happen to sit right in the beam for a long time, but that's unlikely given the short range of this tech).
This will be a great solution to the octopus I have living behind my flat screen in the living room
I hope it does not fry my testicles.
This will not travel well at all. Tv broadcasts only need to be in the Mhz range to provide enough bandwidth.I'd rather have less Ghz for more range. The router I have barely gets my entire house with it's 2.4ghz band, this is going to not even get halfway across through all the walls this house has.
Hmm, I don't really know much about this tech, but from the article's text it seems it's more for high-bandwidth, close-range applications. Like Making sure your TV, STB, BR player and Media player (all of which usually sit pretty close to each other anyway) can get along with themselves without any cables (other than the mains one, that is), and also with your Internet gateway (which in small homes is just around the corner from everything else and doesn't really need Gb speeds anyway).
The same thing applies to PC and monitors, they are usually in close range of each other. They might be farther away from the router, but unless you want/need high-speed access to the NAS on the other side of the house, regular 2.4GHz/5GHz wireless might do the trick. OR, since apparently this lends itself to a mesh architecture (the text hints it's point-to-point), you might only need a couple of (hopefully cheap) mesh repeaters here and there to boost the signal to farther away spots.
Oh, and this doesn't seem a tech for input devices: this is high-bandwidth, mice, keyboards and remotes can still stick to 2.4Ghz, IMHO.
Now, I hope there's a simple way to handle video links... I'd hate it if my fast-paced FPS game was interrupted by someone in the next room pressing "play" on the BR player. Both the game being cut and the certain ensuing "Hey, what's wrong with the BR player?" would most likely p*** me off. 1-to-1 links with "in-use" locks only (except for transparent routing to other devices if needes, of course), please!
Cheers.
Miguel
I hope by 2012 we could start seeing products that use this new technology.