IEEE 802.11ac: 5th Generation WiFi Networking

It’s no secret that wireless communications standards continue to evolve to provide ever-increasing data throughput capabilities. Today, two of the hottest wireless standards are IEEE 802.11ac in wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) products and 3GPP LTE-Advanced in cellular communications. IEEE 802.11ac is the new draft standard for Gigabit WiFi. IEEE 802.11ac promises data rates of up to 1.73Gbps between an access point and a wireless client. In this paper, we’ll take a basic knowledge about IEEE 802.11ac. More specifically, we’ll look at how features such as Video Streaming and Data Syncing and Backing Up. Finally, we’ll look technical detail and its application.