WiFi Camps to Combat It Away At 60 GHz

There's nothing more cruel in ICT than a values battle and there's one brewing over WiFi at 60GHz. It's the usual front line creation competing vendor groups going to market early because standards-setting is too slow.

A swath of international and basically vacant unlicensed 60 GHz spectrum has now become the official battleground for the next Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, IEEE 802.11ad.

The battle for persuade over unlicensed frequencies surrounding 60 GHz and a technology that will give clients access to this spectrum began this week, when interest groups began planning to gain leverage over the 802.11ad standardization process. The action will continue next week in Beijing, when the IEEE will pay attention to proposals for the informative standard.