The Wi-Fi Alliance has finally certified the high-speed and short-range WiGig products. The company had revealed a WiGig wireless gigabit hub during a demonstration by Intel at the IFA trade show in Berlin on September 2, 2015.
Recently on 24 October, the Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a certification process for WiGig products that will go as fast as 8G bits per second and also will include virtual-reality headsets and high-speed office Wi-Fi zones.
The technology was firstly announced in 2009 and is based on a standard, IEEE 802.11ad. Now the technology is available in some shipping products, reports Wireless Week.
Unlike existing Wi-Fi solutions that function in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, the WiGig uses a wider range of channels in the less-congested 60 GHz airwaves that too deliver ultra-low latency and speeds up to eight GBs per second.
According to the PC World, WFA (Wi-Fi solutions) took over WiGig in 2013 and it had planned to start approving products in 2013 only. But the technical challenges like extremely high frequencies took extra time, came with communication, said Kevin Robinson, who is WFA's vice president of marketing.
Virtual reality is one such application that helps in connecting a high-definition head-mounted display to a PC without a cable requires. Also the kind of multigigabit speed and low latency, that only new network can offer. Unwiring the HMD will help users to collect more freedom of movement, and a critical factor in VR gaming and other experiences.
"There's this huge desire to eliminate that cord," McGregor said. In the view, that VR in WiGig will be having a cordless VR.
WiGig can act like a Wi-Fi wireless LAN except over a shorter distance of about 10 meters. The Wi-Fi networks can be handed users off to WiGig, and vice versa, so the workers can automatically get the capacity they need to do work in a crowded meeting or to use in big conference room display as live streaming.
Other applications in the WiGig include wireless docking also a high-speed gaming and multimedia streaming between devices. Smartphone operators can use it for high-capacity links between cells and wired networks.
The technology behind WiGig is millimetre-wave wireless that is a set of techniques that let networks to send data over higher frequencies in comparison to have ever been used in mainstream networking. The cellular world is also eyeing millimeter-wave bands, including 60GHz, for future 5G networks.
In August this year, ABI Research forecast showed that WiGig chipset shipments will reach 1.5 billion by 2021 and half of those chipset shipments will be for smartphones. So, it is better to wait for the WiGig to officially launch.
