Wi-Fi Planet's Eric Griffith today looks at the current status of 802.11n, noting that in a vote yesterday, the current draft of the standard failed to get the majority required for it to move ahead.

"That means changes are coming, so expect at the very least a draft 2.0 (and many more drafts, if the history of the standards process is any indication)," Griffith writes.

ABI Research today released a report entitled Next Generation Wi-Fi: 802.11n, which looks at the current slew of "Draft N" products, solutions attempting to anticipate the functionality of a future 802.11n products. "Consumers and business users should be wary about their purchases, at least till final ratification of the standard," according to Alan Varghese, ABI's principal analyst for wireless semiconductors.

And Airgo Networks, which has already had some success with products using the technology that 11n is based upon (MIMO), made it clear that it feels vindicated by the failure of the draft. Airgo CEO Greg Raleigh said the vote "proves that Draft 1.0 was not as stable as some in the industry would have us believe. It calls into question the validity of so-called 'Draft N' products."