Samsung Electronics’ 60GHz Wi-Fi Technology Accelerates Data Transmission by Five Times

October 12, 2014 | Comments | Tomorrow Works

Summary:

• Samsung Electronics announced the development of its 60GHz Wi-Fi technologya five-fold increase from 866Mbps, or 108MB per second, the maximum speed possible with existing consumer electronics devices.

 

Samsung Electronics’ 60GHz Wi-Fi Technology

Accelerates Data Transmission by Five Times

 

Commercially viable 60GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology

to benefit wide variety of connected devices

 

Samsung Electronics announced the development of its 60GHz Wi-Fi technology that enables data transmission speeds of up to 4.6Gbps, or 575MB per second, a five-fold increase from 866Mbps, or 108MB per second, the maximum speed possible with existing consumer electronics devices. As a result, a 1GB movie will take less than three seconds to transfer between devices, while uncompressed high-definition videos can easily be streamed from mobile devices to TVs in real-time without any delay.

 

“Samsung has successfully overcome the barriers to the commercialization of 60GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology, and looks forward to commercializing this breakthrough technology,” said Kim Chang Yong, Head of DMC R&D Center of Samsung Electronics. “New and innovative changes await Samsung’s next-generation devices, while new possibilities have been opened up for the future development of Wi-Fi technology.”

 

Unlike the existing 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi technologies, Samsung’s 802.11ad standard 60GHz Wi-Fi technology maintains maximum speed by eliminating co-channel interference, regardless of the number of devices using the same network. By doing so, Samsung’s new technology removes the gap between theoretical and actual speeds, and exhibits actual speed that is more than 10 times faster than that of 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi technologies.

 

Until now, there have been significant challenges in commercially adopting 60GHz Wi-Fi technology , as millimeter waves that travel by line-of-sight has weak penetration properties and is susceptible to path loss, resulting in poor signal and data performance. By leveraging millimeter-wave circuit design and high performance modem technologies and by developing wide-coverage beam-forming antenna, Samsung was able to successfully achieve the highest quality, commercially viable 60GHz Wi-Fi technology.

 

In addition, Samsung also enhanced the overall signal quality by developing the world’s first micro beam-forming control technology that optimizes the communications module in less than 1/3,000 seconds, in case of any changes in the communications environment. The company also developed the world’s first method that allows multiple devices to connect simultaneously to a network.

 

As is the case with the 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrum, the 60GHz is an unlicensed band spectrum across the world, and commercialization is expected as early as next year. Samsung plans to apply this new technology to a wide range of products, including audio visual and medical devices, as well as telecommunications equipment. The technology will also be integral to developments relevant to the Samsung Smart Home and other initiatives related to the Internet of Things.

 

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  • http://computerstories.net/ Rowan Gonzalez

    I truly hope this will finally get rid of all of the wifi interference we had to live with for such a long time. I’m very excited to see what the first consumer grade 60 GHz wifi technology enabled devices will be capable of.

    • Lo

      Hi Rowan,

      WiGig is not replacing WiFi. More likely, it will be another “arm” of WiFi in some devices, and used for things like wireless docking. Anyway, Samsung Electronics did not invent it, this is a new industry standard and you shall see multiple vendors starting to sell it in 2014-15 time frame.
      I would caution you to give it a few years to mature before it will find it’s sweet spot and become ubiquitous.

      Regardless, it is an exciting new wireless technology that is coming to town.

      Cheers.

  • Serge Preis

    What about the range? Walls? According to various sources 60GHz looks more like Bluetooth: very low range, direct visibility.

    • Dr

      The problem posed by walls could be overcome with several WiFi stations in each room ?

      • Marco

        And each AP is going to have a cost associated with it. If I need 10x the number of APs to get coverage, this new tech needs to be at least 1/10 the cost of a/b gear if there is to be wide adoption.

    • Stan

      according to various sources, you’re an idiot, bluetooth broadcasts at 2.4GHz

  • Coinmanmat

    Wow and WiFi AC aka “5G” Wifi hasn’t even fully been adopted everywhere. Samsung your crazy lol

  • Tigran Agababyan

    So what’s the difference between Samsung’s 802.11ad standard 60GHz Wi-Fi technology and 802.11ad announced in 2012? It eliminates co-channel interference while the other one just minimized it?

  • Princess_Eevee9

    I demand to know the cost.

  • http://donoftheworld.com Rehan Arshad

    Higher Frequency bands have shorter wavelengths means that they can’t penetrate walls… If anyone of you have used 5GHz Wi-Fi band then you will know about its range. In 60Ghz, the range gets even shorter.
    What 60GHz is good for? For high speeds, now we’ll not have to connect cables to transfer or stream data from laptops to smartphones or smart-tvs … But you’ll need all your devices in the same room. The concept is like of Infrared or Bluetooth but speed is way way fast.
    It’ll be good for Cafes and Coffee shops where you’ve open but small spaces.
    Question is, will Samsung make routers? Well, we don’t know but one thing is for sure that Samsung will incorporate this technology in its smartphones and other devices. But hopefully, it’ll not be limited to Samsung products which means that we should be able to transfer our files using this tech. from Samsung’s smartphone to HP’s laptop.
    This is not a new tech. but Samsung has found its way to use it in its devices. Even if it’ll start featuring in devices from January 2015 which I don’t expect, it’ll still take some 2 years to get around.
    So, enjoy 802.11ac …. and dream 802.11ad