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Wait - they integrated WiGig into 802.11ac? Interesting, and a better way to go than releasing a separate 802.11ad actually (even though the routers would obvio

Wait - they integrated WiGig into 802.11ac? Interesting, and a better way to go than releasing a separate 802.11ad actually (even though the routers would obviously have both ac and ad, just like we see b/g/n support today).

rektide 13y ago
Not at all. Channel sizes in 802.11ad's 60GHz spectrum space are 2.16GHz wide, and can fit four of those channels in most countries. 802.11ac is still 80MHz channels in 2.4GHz space and now 160MHz channels in 5GHz space, and can fit two and three or four of those "big" channels". 802.11ad is definitely a major user of beamforming, relying heavily on reflectance, as it doesn't penetrate solid stuff very well. 802.11ad also has engineering work being poured into protocol adaption layers, so interconnects such as DisplayPort or PCIe can run atop it and presumably the 802.11 MAC that's supposed to be core to 802.11ad.