First, after 7 full years of development, the IEEE announced Friday that the 802.11n wireless standard has finally been fully approved. (Reuters Press Release.)
Better know as "WiFi-n," and the progeny of WiFi a,b and the current wide-spread standard WiFi-g, the significance of this is two fold:
First, WiFi users will have access to much higher bandwidth wireless connections (300 Mb/s plus, compared to WiFi-g's 54 Mb/s but touted as a ten-fold improvement). Great news for enterprise, home and public WLANs currently labouring under the ever-escalating demand for bandwith to service today's multimedia applications.
Wireless routers and access points touting WiFi-n Draft compatibility have been available for years. Most, if not all, of these will reportedly be upgradable to the official standard with a simple firmware update.
Read the CNET report - "802.11n Wi-Fi standard finally approved."
Second, hard on the heals of the WiFi-n announcement, CNET reports the newest version of Apple's iPod Touch PDA, announced Sept 10, carries a Broadcom BCM4329 chip
capable of supporting WiFi-n, leading to suggestion that the high-end Touches will provide n access sooner rather than later.
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