Wireless N 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard Approved

The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard.

The IEEE today announced that its Standards Board has ratified the IEEE 802.11n™-2009 amendment, defining mechanisms that provide significantly improved data rates and ranges for wireless local area networks (WLANs). This new amendment to the IEEE 802.11 base standard is designed to help the data communications industry address the escalating demands placed on enterprise, home and public WLANs with the rise of higher-bandwidth file transfers and next-generation multimedia applications. WLANs based on IEEE 802.11 are widely deployed, with more than 1 million units shipping per day.

For further information on IEEE 802.11, visit http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.11.html

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