Need for speed

There’s little doubt that we increasingly use wireless connectivity to pass media across our PCs, handsets, printers, set-top boxes and cameras. However, as the richness and size of the data we consume increases, the speed of wireless file transfers inevitably decreases. Just as we thought we had cleared our homes of the spaghetti like collection of wires linking devices, the increased file size of the data we look to transfer could soon bring about their return as current wireless solutions struggle under the weight.

A huge welcome then to the ‘Wireless Gigibit Alliance ‘(WiGig). WiGig is a new collection of 12 leading digital media device manufacturers and semi conductor makers who plan to use unlicensed spectrum across the world to provide a new faster wireless standard. The new standard will offer little interference, and increased bandwidth by utilising the 60 GHz standard to transfer high definition media data across our increasing number of digital devices.

It's claimed that WiGig would vastly improve on the transfer speeds offered by WiFi. As our desire to shift media across platforms increases WiGig could then be the solution we are all looking for! Keep your eyes peeled on this one, especially the inevitable struggle for spectrum.