Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passé. Although the official 802.11ac specification won’t be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance is finally kicking off a certification program for routers, adapters, and other wireless networking gear based on the IEEE 802.11ac draft standard. The organization has a strong ...

National Instruments announced early access support for testing next-generation 802.11ac WLAN chipsets and devices. This announcement exemplifies how NI’s modular, software-defined wireless test ...

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Extricom single-channel architecture takes full advantage of the 802.11ac standard by allowing unrestricted use of 80MHz bonded channels to blanket the enterprise, without fear of channel conflicts ...

The first thing you need to know about IEEE 802.11ac—the latest wireless networking standard—is that the standard isn’t actually finished. Today’s 802.11ac routers are based on a second draft. Early ...

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Review updated 1/29/2013: If you need to connect just a single client, such as a laptop or a home-theater PC, to your 802.11ac network, a Wi-Fi client USB adapter is much cheaper than a wireless ...

Although the 802.11ac standard remains unratified, chipsets and consumer products are appearing. In April, for example, NETGEAR announced the availability of the R6300, which the company called the ...

Step by step, the 802.11ac standard is taking over wireless networks in the enterprise, offering faster connections for users with the right devices. Two years after 802.11ac products started shipping ...