802.11n is real, film in 2007

It looks like the next gen­er­a­tion wire­less spec­i­fi­ca­tion has finally made it out of com­mit­tee. 802.11n promises up to 600 Mbps wire­less data trans­fers (com­pared to 54 Mbps for 802.11g, the cur­rent spec­i­fi­ca­tion). There were some pol­i­tics pre­vent­ing it, and some pol­i­tics in the approval, and appar­ently some pol­i­tics in the imple­men­ta­tion, but the gist of it is, we can expect to see devices in 2007. Of course, don’t expect 600 Mbps right away, but even 100 Mbps would be a vast improvement.

With Apple play­ing nice with Intel these days, maybe we’ll see an Air­port Ultimate-Extreme-Party-People 802.11n base sta­tion before 2008?

Minor updates have been made to the Home Com­put­ing Mas­ter Plan based on this information.