802.11n Wi-Fi gets to 100Mbps

It is planning to show off its new standard at the Computex trade show in Taipei next week.

The IEEE 802.11n Working Group has adopted a draft version of the standard which will probably be confirmed next year. A couple of vendors have released products based around the draft standard, but getting them to work together at those sorts of speeds has not happened yet.

With Broadcom and Atheros chipsets working together to get these sorts of speeds it does mean that there are a wide variety of different vendors who will benefit. Broadcom's Intensi-fi and Atheros' XSpan chipsets work with vendors like D-Link, Netgear, Belkin and Cisco's Linksys unit. According to Infoworld that makes about 90 percent of the wireless market

If the pair manage to get the levels of interoperability that they claim, it will be one in the eye for their rival Airgo Networks which claimed that there were serious problems with the 802.11n draft. Airgo backed another standard before the draft was approved.

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