Tim Higgins
802.11ac has been approved.
The IEEE, today announced approval of IEEE 802.11ac™-2013.
The new amendment is intended to improve WLAN user experience by providing data rates up to 7 Gbps in the 5 GHz band, more than 10 times the speed that was previously standardized. 
AirMagnet just introduced a more affordable Wi-Fi spectrum analysis tool.
WirelessHD today announced the release of its 1.1 specification.
Cisco yesterday announced an Aironet series access point with dual 802.11n Draft 2.0 radios.
The modular Cisco Aironet 1250 Series access point has a modular design with 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz 802.11n draft 2.0 standard radio modules. Cisco says that the AP can deliver "total data rates of up to 600 Mbps". The 1250 is an addition to Cisco's Unified Wireless Network product line and can be deployed in both standalone and "unified" (lightweight AP) modes.
