Organization of Wireless Gigabit Alliance has completed work on the three lower levels of wireless data transmission standard WiGig. The new communications technology involves broadcasting a range of 60 GHz, which provides the bandwidth of several gigabits per second.
Testing of early prototypes have shown that it is possible to achieve speeds in the range of 3.5 to 4.5 Gb / s, but it should be noted that the radio waves used for transmission, can not penetrate the barrier (wall, for example), and tested the device in sight line . Work on WiGig still far from complete, and the standard seems to come to substitution of Wi-Fi 802.11ac technology, which involves transmission of data at speeds up to 1 Gbit / s in the 5 GHz band. The new version of Wi-Fi will be implemented from next year, while the spread of WiGig could be delayed until 2016.
Alliance also gathered a working group to determine the software interface standards that enable the use of WiGig to pair the devices. . In the end, WiGig can replace wired interfaces DisplayPort, HDMI, PCI Express, USB and others .
A young company Wilocity has become one of the first developers to embody WiGig silicon device: a small chip can transmit data at speeds up to 3.5 Gb / s, while consuming 2 watts of energy. Other members of the alliance will be ready to present their own development in the near future.