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SAMSUNG SAYS IT has developed a WiFi technology that can increase data speeds by five times the current rate, and it could feature in devices as soon as next year.
The new connection would allow a 1GB movie to be downloaded in less than three seconds and would allow uncompressed high-definition videos to be streamed from mobile devices to TVs in real-time.
It says the technology removes the gap between theoretical and actual speeds, and presents actual speeds that are ten times faster than existing WiFi technologies.
The head of Samsung’s Research and Development centre, Kim Chang Yong, said the company had ”successfully overcome the barriers to the commercialisation of 60GHz [WiFi technology]” and that “new and innovative changes await Samsung’s next-generation devices, while new possibilities have been opened up for the future development of Wi-Fi technology.”
It does this by using the 60 GHz WiFi standard, an increase from the traditional 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz signals that devices normally use.
The reason this frequency hasn’t been used before was because it is susceptible to path loss, resulting in poor signal and reception, but Samsung claims it has overcome this through a number of methods such as developing a wide-coverage antenna for it.
Samsung expects this technology to be incorporated into products “as early as next year.” It plans to apply it to a wide range of products such as medical devices, telecommunications equipment and audio-devices.
It also said the development would be integral to developing smart home devices as well as the internet of things.
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Fantastic news! Now would be a great time to invest in the burgeoning Irish porn industry.
Soon we’ll have wifi so fast that if u think of a web page it’ll appear in 0.0000001 % of a second.
Jebus! I’d be blind in under a half an hour!!
If only they could build a TV with proper power supply.
We need fast connections first.
We already have fast connections…200Mb on UPC here in Dublin…and seems to be upped every year.
If people choose to live in standalone houses in the countryside then fast broadband is not going to be as readily available for obvious reasons.
I have 1MB from Eircom. Not their fault but government for not investing in rural Ireland
I hope they change the name to Weeeee-Fi………… I’ll get my coat.
At 60ghz you wouldn’t want anything more than fresh air between source and receiver.
As If Wi-Fi is the bottleneck. Range will be terrible.
And for those of us living in the areas that got Broadband from the NBS, we should look forward to this new technology in about 10 years. Maybe I’m being too optimistic…
Great. But where is my Gear S?
“Samsung says it’s developed WiFi technology that’s five times faster”
…………and because it’s proprietary tech, it will only work with Samsung products.
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