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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19092)	1/25/2007 12:48:02 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Frank, >>CES: IEEE 802.11n: The vendor-neutering of a once-promising standard By Brian Dipert \| 1/8/2007 \| EDN<< >>But the plethora of draft 802.11n silicon already in the market will unfairly constrain the IEEE standards committee as it works toward spec finalization. Unless committee participants are really gutsy (in which case their dictates will probably be ignored by the technology implementers, anyway), market forces will remove from consideration anything that's unsupportable by currently shipping hardware in conjunction with a firmware tweak. Current-hardware compatibility with the final standard is a particular concern for companies that have already guaranteed that this will happen and would face either backlash (notably in the form of probable lawsuits) or crippling hardware-retrofit expenses if they can't later deliver on the promise.<< What a difference a week makes. While Brian was consuming CES, about 45 802.11n people were in London crafting the final compromises for Draft 2.0, and everyone is looking at their next silicon release to be the Christmas season hit, not current silicon shipping today. The people in London included Atheros CTO Bill McFarland, and Sheung Li, TGn Vice Chair, who are far more knowledgeable than whoever Brian talked to in the booth at CES. 802.11n Draft 1.10 came out yesterday, and will go to letter ballot with a compromise for 40-MHz channel bandwidth operation in the 2.4 GHz band. 11-06/1934r5 TGn closing report tinyurl.com ftp://ftp.802wirelessworld.com/11/06/11-06-1934-05-000n-tgn-opening-report-london-jan-07.ppt TGk and TGn together are over 600 pages of amendments to the 1200 page 802.11-2007 standard. A little light reading in the next four weeks ;-( petere