Wi-Fi vendors are just beginning to ship the first products featuring the new 802.11ac Wave 1 standard. It is the first Wi-Fi standard to use the 5GHz unlicensed spectrum band, rather than the 2.4GHz band, which has been used up to now. It will increase speeds from around 400Mbps achieved by the current 802.11n to 1.3Gbps.
Wi-Fi equipment provider Xirrus has not quite got its first generation 802.11ac products out to market yet, but they have been available for pre-order since last year and will be shipping in the next quarter.
Bruce Miller, Vice President, Product Marketing at Xirrus, explains: ‘We announced a deal last year whereby if customers pre-ordered 802.11ac arrays and access points (APs) they could have them at a discount - the same price as our current 802.11n APs, in fact. So, although we won’t be first to market with our products we have already sold hundreds of them.’
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