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802.11ad represents an important step in the evolution
of Wi-Fi, enabling new user capabilities such as wire-
equivalent docking and high-quality, low-latency video
streaming, multimedia kiosks, while bringing a step
increase in network capacity, and much more.
We are excited to announce that Qualcomm Atheros and
Intel have reached a crucial milestone in making 802.11ad
WiGig* a mainstream and widely available technology. Intel
and Qualcomm Atheros have successfully demonstrated
multi-gigabit interoperability between our companies’
respective 802.11ad WiGig solutions. This milestone will
help pave the way for industry development of 802.11ad
WiGig devices that can communicate and connect
seamlessly with each other at amazing speeds of up to
4.6 Gbps [1]. Moreover, this milestone underscores both
companies’ commitment to the strong evolution of Wi-
Fi, both infrastructure and peer-to-peer communications,
as well as the critical role 802.11ad WiGig plays in this
evolutionary process.
Laptops, tablets, smartphones, access points, storage
devices, untethered VR glasses and other 802.11ad WiGig-
capable devices offer multi-gigabit speeds, high density,
low latency and very high network capacity, as well as
empower a new class of applications and services. 802.11ad
will transform the experience of Wi-Fi users, be it in their
offices, homes or even in public places. Bringing the vast,
new spectrum in 60 GHz band to Wi-Fi’s fold, 802.11ad
will be one of the potent tools to address burgeoning data
Intel and Qualcomm collaborate to build robust 802.11ad
ecosystem
expanded line-up of suppliers.
The increased floor space available in the new office
at Aschheim-Dornach will allow Future Electronics to
accommodate more specialist engineers dedicated to
fast-growing market and technology segments such
as connectivity, LED lighting and power electronics. In
addition, the modern office complex provides excellent
communications facilities and a suitable configuration
for the larger customer-service operation that Future
Electronics is establishing in Muenchen. This comes in
response to rising demand from manufacturers in Germany,
Austria, Switzerland and The Netherlands for Future
Electronics’ advanced logistics and inventory management
demand in homes, enterprises and carrier networks.
Qualcomm Atheros and Intel engineers worked
collaboratively for months in each other’s labs, running
countless tests, culminating in this achievement. These tests
spanned across many use cases and scenarios, including
peer-to-peer connections between Inteland Qualcomm
Atheros 802.11ad WiGig based clients and Qualcomm
Atheros 802.11ad WiGig powered access points (wireless
routers). Tests examined various cases and conditions—
from device discovery and connection to full-blown data
uploads and downloads, streaming and more. As part of
the testing, we successfully achieved multi-gigabit real
data throughput between our devices.
Achieving full interoperability is not easy. This level of
collaboration and focused effort is essential in creating new
markets and building a robust ecosystem, and in ultimately
providing seamless user experience across multi-vendor
devices.
While more work lies ahead, our collaboration lays the
groundwork for a large ecosystem of interoperable
commercial 802.11ad products across networking, mobile
and computing segments. We are excited about the new
capabilities 802.11ad enables—from 4K display connectivity
to tri-band (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 60 GHz) Wi-Fi networking
and high-speed cellular offload—and we think you should
be excited at our progress in bringing these capabilities to
your favorite devices.
programmes, which can provide customers with the
assurance of next-day availability of their entire electronics
materials requirement.
Ole Gerkensmeyer, Regional Sales Director for Central
Europe at Future Electronics
Ole Gerkensmeyer, Future Electronics’ Regional Sales
Director for Central Europe, said: ‘Central Europe is possibly
the most competitive region for electronics component
distribution in the world. Future Electronics’ new, larger
regional headquarters is going to help us continue to
succeed by keeping our levels of customer service and
engineering support ahead of our competitors’ while
serving a growing customer base.’
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