TGn Takes 802.11n Confirmation Vote
By Suzanne Deffree -- Electronic News, 3/17/2005
According to an Atheros executive, the TGn Sync group's proposal has won out over the WWiSE group's proposal in this week's IEEE 802.11n vote.
In a note from the voting floor in Atlanta, Sheung Li of Atheros reports the IEEE group confirmation vote just went 181 to 140 in favor of TGn Sync's proposal for standard.
"With the first vote of 178 TGn Sync to 153 WWiSE, the WWiSE proposal technically disappears from consideration as the 11n standard," Li, a product line manager at the TGn Sync-sided company, said. "TGn Sync is now the only option on the table."
A 75 percent supermajority is necessary, however, to adopt a proposal as is, and the 181 (at 56 percent) to 140 (at 44 percent) vote did not provide this.
"In the end, WWiSE was left to resorting to the argument that a vote against confirmation
will compel the group(s) to compromise," Li continued.
Members of both groups have openly said they are willing to compromise to get to standard. Collectively, the companies involved in TGn Sync – including Atheros, Intel and Philips – and those involved in WWiSE – such as Broadcom and Airgo – will now negotiate to a final standard based on the TGn Sync proposal. The IEEE will vote again in May.
"People then have the choice of confirming and moving on, or voting no, which would reset the IEEE process and delay any first draft of the standard until 4Q05," Li said.
IEEE representatives could not immediately provide information on today's confirmation vote.
Successor to 802.11g, 802.11n is a next generation wireless LAN technology expected to run at 100/Mbits/sec., fast enough to stream video through a home.
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