Sunday, June 3, 2012

WiFi’s future: faster, smarter, and fewer cables

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/wifis-future-faster-smarter-and-fewer-cables/

Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson

WiFi has easily been one of the most useful technologies of the past decade—so many of our daily tasks and the devices we use rely on it. But it’s on the verge of getting a whole lot better.

Technology upgrades we’ll see within the next year or so will make WiFi much smarter and more efficient in how it distributes signals. It’ll be so fast, and integrated into so many devices, that you may finally get to dump a lot of those cables cluttering your living room.

We talked about some of these upcoming advancements a few months back. Evolving WiFi standards were also a hot topic at last week’s Interop Las Vegas conference, where panelists and tech experts we interviewed updated us on the progress of the new standards and technologies that will improve our wireless lives.

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from Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com