Big guns launch assault on 802.11n wireless spec

More than two dozen leading wireless LAN companies have formed an industry coalition to create and submit a spec for the IEEE's next generation wireless LAN standard - 802.11n. The Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC), announced today, says it aims to break a deadlock and speed up ratification of the 802.11n standard, which may go as fast as 600 Mbit/s. The 27 members include big Wi-Fi players such as Atheros, Broadcom, Cisco and Intel, but omit the one significant MIMO vendor, Airgo.

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