In the "Wireless Gigabit Alliance has 17 IT companies have joined forces. The consortium will submit 2010 a specification, according to the distances of a few meters 1 Gigabit per second can be transmitted wirelessly. Thought the procedure is primarily for home networking.

Among the new alliance, which briefly mentions WiGig include both chip manufacturers and suppliers of PCs, mobile phones and software. Among the semiconductor manufacturers are using Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, Realtek, STMicroelectronics, Samsung, and almost all major manufacturers of Ethernet and wireless LAN modules represented. With Dell and Microsoft can be found in the list of companies that joined two other heavyweights, and LG, Nokia and Samsung are a major part of the mobile phone market dar.

The total of 17 supporters of WiGig want in the fourth quarter of 2009, the first to submit a draft specification, which the data in the frequency band of 60 gigahertz standardized. Devices that WiGig support with an appropriate logo and will be at least 1 Gbit / s reach, and some even up to 6 Gbit / s, the consortium promises on its website.

This is made possible by the high data rate through the broad band of approximately 7 GHz, which WiGig available. For WLAN in 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz band are all below 100 MHz. Depending on the country, the usable range varies widely in the U.S., for example, are the frequencies from 57 to 64 GHz freely available in Japan, from 59 to 66 GHz.

For more than three years, several companies are working on a use of the 60-GHz band. IBM already had a prototype in early 2006 are presented. The company is lacking so far but for unknown reasons in the list of WiGig supporters. End of 2007, IBM had then MediaTek, together with a module according to the approximate wavelength mmWave known technique for radio shows, which is thought of home networking.

The connection between media devices in the budget also provides for the WiGig as a preferred area for the new technology. The IBM approach was proposed for them in every room before several transmitters, similar to the access points of a WLAN. The main problem of the 60-GHz technology is that the high data rates only in direct connection and no objects or walls in your way may be. How to circumvent these difficulties and how, for example, the channels connected to each other to be the WiGig consortium has not yet been explained.

Besides the technical hurdles WiGig competes for the first devices are expected no earlier than 2010, even with WLAN and wireless USB. While the WLAN with the next generation of access points and routers with multiple antennas on MIMO still 600 Mbit / s can be boring, currently achieved Wireless USB 480 MBit / s, but is twice as fast soon will. Wireless USB devices are also already available, are currently on the market but only hesitantly accepted.

In WiGig is also not yet clear what the procedures underpinning software wants. Both Wireless USB and Wireless offer is for doing so, also to facilitate the marketing, because there are no radically new technology should be promoted.