Tim Higgins
The new members are Toshiba, which has joined the board of directors and Agilent Technologies, Beam Networks, Ralink Technology and Texas Instruments.
WiGig Alliance members are defining a unified specification for using unlicensed 60 GHz spectrum for in-room wireless device-to-device communication. The WiGig specification is expected to be available to member companies by the end of this year.
Asustek Computer will begin shipping third-generation (3G) smartphones based on Intel's mobile platform to European telecom service providers including Vodafone and O2 in the fourth quarter of this year, but these will be the last Asustek 3G smartphones based on Intel's platform, according to industry sources.
The triple play is the convergence of data, voice, and television (IPTV) across a single pipe: Wi-Fi's in-home dominance of data and increasingly voice and IPTV (with proprietary extensions) will be challenged, ABI Research says, by the latest versions of three standards that work over coax, electrical wiring, and phone wiring. ABI Research says that by 2011, over 45 million gateways will offer wired-based distribution of data, voice, and video. (The quadruple play, by the way, adds mobile voice.)
Ekahau today released a free coverage mapping tool for 802.11 Wi-Fi networks.
