802.11ac Wi-Fi routers are just the ticket for consumers looking to cut the cord. It’s a tricky time to be in the market for a new wireless router. The safe bet is buy a model based on the ...

If your business has kept pace with changes in wireless networking, you’ve deployed dual-band routers and client adapters that can stream encrypted data over the airwaves at speeds greater than 100 ...

Amid the heated chatter surrounding Apple’s big releases at WWDC, something smaller — but nonetheless significant — managed to sneak through. With everyone gushing over iOS 7 and the new Macs, it was ...

You may think of 802.11ac as a technology more useful for streaming HDTV than for corporate use, but you'd be mistaken. The company found that while 802.11ac is being adopted quickly, it still has a ...

Organizations upgrading their networks can lay the groundwork for new 802.11ac technology using this checklist. Many organizations are working on the migration of existing wireless networks to the new ...

Broadcom’s new 802.11ac 5G Wi-Fi chips will be showcased at CES 2012.Broadcom Following a CES preview event last month, Broadcom today announced its first family of 802.11ac (also known as 5G Wi-Fi) ...

The first routers based on the first draft of the next-generation wi-fi standard, 802.11ac, appeared at CES in 2012, sporting multiple antennas (the technical term is MIMO, standing for Multiple Input ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Let's be honest, the world of wireless Internet standards is a bit dull. The technology behind the amazing ability to wirelessly access nearly anything we want to know is, well, a snooze. Nonetheless, ...

When it comes to the adoption of new technology such as 802.11ac, the industry becomes a farmer’s almanac of predictions when it comes to when and what devices and products will announce 802.11ac ...

A new wireless standard is set to be launched next year that will bring 3 times the speed when compared to the current fastest Wifi standard 802.11n. The new 802.11ac will transmit wireless signals on ...

Everybody’s talking about 802.11ac, but we’ve sensed some confusion for next steps as far as how CIO’s and IT organizations should be approaching the new standard. As much as 802.11ac is about ...