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The IEEE has finally ratified 802.11n

• mhansen 17y ago
  Seven years. What a colossal failure for the IEEE. Any insight on why it took so long?
  • deleted 17y ago
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  • cromulent 17y ago
    The Aussie government research lab CSIRO held patents on some of the technology and only agreed a resolution early this year.
    • dschobel 17y ago
      How can there be patentable technology in a specification? If it's a specification shouldn't it by definition omit implementation details?
      • wmf 17y ago
        Often there's only one natural way to implement something. For example, AFAIK everyone uses FFT to implement OFDM.
• messel 17y ago
  Do we infer the lack of needed standards?
  • eru 17y ago
    Good standards are discovered not imposed.
• tocomment 17y ago
  What does this mean for me? Will I get super fast wifi now? how fast?
  • jcl 17y ago
    All the devices out there that say "802.11n" on the box also have a disclaimer saying "draft standard". Now they can omit the disclaimer.