The Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit Alliance said they have finalized a previously announced deal to consolidate WiGig technology and certification development into the Wi-Fi Alliance.
“Consolidation of the activities in Wi-Fi Alliance will deliver closely-harmonized connectivity and application-layer solutions using WiGig technology,” the organizations noted in a statement, adding that a baseline interoperability certification program was expected to be in place by early 2014.
The WiGig standard is being developed to provide short-range, multi-gigabit connectivity for applications like high-definition display extensions, peripheral connectivity and input/output cable replacement. The WiGig Alliance noted that the technology is expected to provide throughput speeds of up to 7 gigabits per second. Gerry Purdy, principal analyst at MobileTrax, explained that “with WiGig/802.11ad, each wireless channel is about 25-times wider than a typical 802.11ac channel, so it would be like having a 25 lane highway to move traffic compared to a one lane highway (or two or three lanes, if multiple spatial streams are used in .11ac).”
IMS Research noted last year that they expected more than one million WiGig devices in its first year, while ABI Research predicts that 1.8 billion devices sporting both Wi-Fi and WiGig technology will have been shipped by 2016.
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