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Slow WiFi and the WiMax-LTE Saga
by Andrew McCaskey
“For a technology that’s all about being fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi sure took its sweet time to become a standard
Until September 2009, it wasn’t, officially, even a standard. But that didn’t stop vendors from implementing it for several years beforehand – it took five drama-packed years for the standard to come to fruition. The delay was never over the technology. In fact, the technical tricks that give 802.11n its steady connection speeds of 100Mbps to 140Mbps have been well-known for years.
major reason it took so long for 802.11n to be finalized was “the amount of money at stake and the number of vendors in the marketplace whose lives can be made easier or harder depending on the outcome.
Wimax versus LTE – standards take time, adoption takes even longer. and with the amount of money in play here, it might take as long as another five years for the drama to play thorugh.
Or like HD-DVD and Blu Ray they might just keep beating each other up until technology awards a hollow victory to one or the other and nobody makes a lot of money.
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