Posted: 03rd Oct, 2005 By: MarkJ
Wireless vendor Strix Systems claims that it can deliver a 400Mbps capable Wi-Fi product within one year using MIMO (multiple antenna technology):
MIMO takes advantage of multi-path distortion, which occurs when Wi-Fi radio signals interfere with each other, causing noise. This can happen when there is more than one antenna within close proximity, perhaps attached to the same mesh node.
MIMO technology incorporates the interference and uses it to boost the existing signal, enabling much greater bandwidth. Its high speeds are suitable for applications such as real-time video streaming over wireless.
Strix has already developed and deployed technology that has a link speed of 108Mbps with a throughput of 33Mbps, which was recently implemented in Barajas airport in Madrid to support video surveillance streaming over a Wi-Fi network.Over the past few months we've heard from a lot of different vendors, all promoting impressive speed Wi-Fi technologies, yet the proof comes from being able to deliver. We'll believe it when we see it. More @
ZDNet.