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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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Wellness retreat with Leigh Arnold. The woman has notions about herself!
@The Thinker: Master begrudgery there!!!!
@The Thinker:
Go forbid anyone having notions about themselves, Bless us & Save us from this curse. Is it true @The Tinker that you’ve started a campaign to bring back the potato as the main food in ireland, just like in the good ole days of the 1800’s.
I went to Ibiza for the first time in August of 2018. I stayed in the north too near Benirras and loved it. It is such an open, tolerant and healthy place. Its really just the SW of the island that has the club scene and even on that side there is beautiful coast and quiet places to take in the view of Es Vedra and more. The swimming in crystal clear torquoise water is pure bliss and healing alone. I camped in a pine forest on a cliff and the dark skies those nights were as good as it gets. There is also a ‘growing’ regenerative living culture which started at ‘Casita Verde’ and is now catching on around the island. I’ve always loved islands including our own and would love to some how do a stint on Ibiza. But it can be very expensive for obvious reasons. Being part of a sustainable community involved in permaculture etc would help greatly. I lived abroad for some years and since coming back I have been unable to settle back into life here as I find it frustrating and there is still a mindset that dominates parts of this country that is mindnumbing. Good on you guys for making the move and going for it! May bump into you next time. :)
Great to hear Leigh and her family are doing well. I could really do with a few days at their retreat, sounds like a really beautiful place. No travel for me anytime soon.
Are they really trying to run it in? Can they not do a postcard from Tory island or somewhere we can actually visit this year?
I want to go to Ibiza!
Strange time to be advertising this.
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