The latest technological progress of WiFi and the direction of future applications The latest technological progress of WiFi and the direction of future applications [pic] December 1, 2008 Wi-Fi is a well-known term. It is the world\'s most popular wireless local area network (WLAN) system, also known as the IEEE 802.11 standard. Wi-Fi technology has been around for nearly a decade, which is a long time (at least in the electronics industry). At present, it has achieved such a successful level that it is simply a matter of course. Most laptops and many home network systems use Wi-Fi technology. Many people also use Wi-Fi to access the network in their offices. If you want to send emails or search the Internet from your laptop, you can access it from airports, convention centers, coffee shops or hotels. There are more than 100,000 hotspots around the world. This technology is also used in a few other applications, such as industrial monitoring and control. For such a successful technology, you have to know how it will develop in the future. 11n is coming Perhaps the most painful process of Wi-Fi has been the development of the 802.11n standard over the past few years. The latest and most important Wi-Fi technology uses multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) and some exotic techniques to achieve wireless data rates of more than 100Mbits/s. The fastest currently, 11g and 11a, top out at 54-Mbit/s under optimized conditions. More typical connections are in the 20-Mbit/s range. That\'s not bad for wireless applications. Strictly speaking, the maximum range is 100M, which is usually much less than any real speed. For most applications, 20 to 54Mbits/s is plenty. But 802.11 advocates have pushed the technology past 100Mbits/s, opening up new applications such as video and selling new chips. 802.11n can be used for home video playback, a growing area of the consumer market as sales of high-definition televisions (HDTV) and digital video recorders (DVRs) grow, and it\'s finally been achieved after years of struggle...
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