The Verge Chinese Station reported on October 26
The speed of the Wi-Fi connection will be faster next year, and it will not be a little faster. The Wi-Fi Alliance has now launched an ultra-fast Wi-Fi standard called WiGig for smartphones, laptops, routers and other devices, which is almost twice as fast as the current fastest Wi-Fi connection. The Wi-Fi Alliance said it will start supporting smartphones and laptops next year.
According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, WiGig is only suitable for short-range signal transmission, which is only about 10 meters, so this means that it can only be used in the router in the room and the smart phone or tablet connected to this route, and we can Get ultra-fast web browsing experience with WiGig. “What we brought this time was an indoor technology,†said Kevin Robinson, vice president of marketing at the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Although WiGig has been considerably limited in terms of transmission distance, it still brings us more possibilities. Perhaps the most exciting of these is virtual reality technology. Now if you want to use a virtual reality gaming helmet or computer, you need a fixed cable connection. Because of the speed requirements of the system, the existing Wi-Fi standard cannot meet the standard at all. Cables, on the other hand, place great restrictions on mobile and immersive experiences in virtual reality games.
On the other hand, WiGig can bring suffi- cient fast transmission guarantees to virtual reality. At the same time, the Wi-Fi Alliance stated that WiGig's high-speed data transmission features will enable the use of virtual reality and 4K streaming video technologies in products such as smartphones, laptops, and monitors.
At the same time, WiGig technology can also allow us to use Internet of Things vendors or public access point services such as Google Fiber and Starry at home. The latter is an Internet company formed by the founder of Aereo, designed to allow us to experience the Internet services we tell from home to the neighborhood.
In addition to WiGig, there is a term in the Wi-Fi domain that needs to be remembered: 802.11ad, a new Wi-Fi standard that also supports WiGig. Most of the latest smartphones, laptops, and routers currently support the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, and the theoretical maximum speed is 4.5 Gbps. The new 802.11ad Wi-Fi standard theoretical maximum upload speed can reach 8Gbps (about 1GB).
In fact, WiGig itself is not a brand new technology. In the past few years, there have been some flagship routing products. Today, the Wi-Fi Alliance has officially started to fully promote WiGig technology, saying that this technology has now begun to enter the popularity phase. At present, all major members and alliances in the technology industry believe that WiGig has reached the stage of full-scale popularization. Therefore, in the coming years, we will see more and more devices and products supporting WiGig. (Author: Jacob Kastrenakes compiled: Guti)
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