Toshiba to demo simplified 100Mbps WLAN

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Toshiba's European R&D division will next week demonstrate a "low complexity" WLAN capable of achieving raw data rates of up to 100Mbps - almost double what today's 802.11g standard can offer...

[blockquote]The company will show off the technology at the ITU Telecom World 2003 conference in Geneva, which opens its doors on Monday.

Toshiba's system uses a technique called MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output), which improves WLAN performance by utilising multiple channels simultaneously through multiple antennae. Spatial multiplexing schemes put the data back together again while improved signal processing boosts the network's range. Performance increases proportionally with the number of antennae built into the system. MIMO uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), the basis of 802.11g. [/blockquote]
<b>Source:</b> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33333.html&quot; target="_new">The Register</a>

Thrax

Yay. One more cheap hardware hack to interefere with the release of a REAL 100Mbps WLAN standard. Cute.

Camman

Sounds neat, hope the actual 'demonstration' makes the news.

FormFactor

You know I always wondered if ytou could use multiple channels on 1 wap to get more nodes/faster speeds. I guess theres my answer. I guess this is kind of the same thing as using multiple colored lazers in fiber optics to multiply the ammount of data that can be transferred at any given time.