Wi-Fi Coming in Faster Short-Range Configuration
Good news for Wi-Fi addicts, The Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit group that promotes the wireless standard, announced a partnership with the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, or WiGig: a company which has been developing a new way to use the 60-gigahertz spectrum for extremely high data speeds between electronic devices in the same room (think Bluetooth only much faster).
The first devices to adopt the new technology could be Blu-ray players that can send high-definition video at speeds of well over a gigabits per second wirelessly to compatible televisions, computers or smartphones. Later, portable devices such as camcorders could get the ability to send video wirelessly to be burned on disc or viewed on the big screen.
A separate coalition, known as the WirelessHD Consortium, has already developed technology (rated at a top speed of 4 gigabits per second, with maximum bandwidth of 10 to 20 gigabits) using the same spectrum, and essentially, with the same goals.
For comparison Bluetooth currently transmits data at two to three megabits per second.