60 GHz. - Watch All About It

I've developed a short video on one of the most important opportunities in wireless today - 60 GHz.

Keith Shaw invited me over to the Network World Studios to do a brief chalk-talk video on 60 GHz., mostly to clear up any confusion over the relationship between WiGig and WirelessHD (or the general lack thereof). I've written about this topic before, but this video worked out pretty well and you might direct your colleagues who haven't looked into the 60 GHz. opportunity to it. I see 60 GHz. as reaching broad application, perhaps beginning late this year or early next, and I do provide an introduction to the basics of the technology as part of this ten-minute video.

60 GHz. is one of the most exciting directions in wireless. No, it's not going to replace 802.11n, or even HDMI cables in many cases. But the fact that this very-broadband technology has arrived at the point where we can even talk about consumer applications is really stunning, considering that 60 GHz. got started by providing inter-satellite links for spacecraft and, until recently, required expensive gallium-arsenide (GaAs) chips to make it go. I expect 60 GHz. radio chips capable of multiple gigabits per second to sell for US$3 or so in quantity, and soon. Is this a great planet, or what?

• Wireless / Mobile
• 60 GHz.
• Keith Shaw
• WiGig
• Wireless Gigabit Alliance
• WirelessHD