The IEEE Group putting the finishing touches on the 100mbps 802.11n wireless LAN standard will shortly launch a project for 1gbps WLAN standard.
The project is also focused on 2 frequency bands (60GHZ and below 6GHz). They choose 60 GHZ as it’s currently have lots of unused spectrum and below 6GHz as it’s similar as today WLANs 5GHZ band (802.11a and 11n).
Tushar Moorti, the system architecture director for Broadcom’s WLAN Business Unit says that the basic idea of this project is to change the ‘maximum mandatory mode’ to the speed at least 500mbps on a single link. Besides that, it also needs a device (access point) that can accommodate the very high throughput (VHT) for multiple links, so each link will get speed over 1gbps in average.
The VHT also needs to be backward compatible with the current 802.11 standards, for example the 11s for mesh networking and 11i for security.
This project is expected as the WLAN standards in year 2012 or 2013.
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