WiGig

The newly formed Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance is aiming to go faster than the wired networks, and the players it has in its camp are some Pretty Hefty Batters – including Atheros Communicaitons, Broadcom, Dell, Intel, Nokia, Toshiba and others.    This past December the WiGiG Alliance stated it is on track to complete the 6 Gpbs wireless network specification utilizing the 60GHz radio spectrum.

What is not spoken about is the ability perhaps to integrate the WiGig with the WiFi networks already in production such as A, G and N.  With 3 of the largest chip manufacturers – Intel, Broadcom and Atheros are eyeing commercial chips by 2011

Imagine what WiGig could mean to the Data Center environment – the end to Cross Connect fees between racks in the same building – but feet or rooms away…  I wonder how long it will take Motorolla and/or Ubiquity to catch on and see how much magic they could perform with this new up and coming standard.