Samsung Looking to Develop Wi-Fi That's Five Times faster than today's wireless networks

Samsung said, it is looking to develop Wi-Fi that is five times faster than the maximum possible speed of what's available today.

Samsung is building 60GHz Wi-Fi technology, which would speed up data transmissions to 4.6 gigabits per second, the equivalent of 575MB per second. That would be a five-fold improvement from today's maximum of 866 megabits per second, or 108MB per second.

That means, a 1GB file wouldn't even take three seconds to transfer from device to device.

Samsung’s press release says it overcame those physical and metaphorical barriers with "high-performance modem technologies and by developing wide-coverage beam-forming antenna." The WirelessHD and WiGig standards groups have also been trying to improve 60GHz signal performance using beam-forming, a Wi-Fi technology that detects where client devices (like PCs and tablets) are physically located and then sends a focused signal directly at those devices, rather than mindlessly broadcasting a Wi-Fi signal in all directions as most routers do. (Beam-forming is already becoming a common feature in high-end 802.11ac routers.)

Samsung said it plans to commercialize the technology as early as next year. It said the faster Wi-Fi would be particularly useful when applied to smart home and Internet of Things devices.

Samsung said 60GHz Wi-Fi had been merely theoretical until now because such signals had trouble penetrating walls.

But now developers are making it a reality, according to the company, by building new antennas and new methods to optimize communications devices.

“Samsung has successfully overcome the barriers to the commercialization of 60 GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology, and looks forward to commercializing this breakthrough technology,” said Kim Chang Yong, head of Samsung's research-and-development center, in the announcement.

Posted By: Bibin