Samsung Electronics says it has developed 60-GHz Wi-Fi technology capable of data rates of up to 4.6Gbps.
The company has announced the development of commercially-viable millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology that can deliver a five-fold increase from the maximum speeds possible with today's Wi-Fi enabled devices.
The technology is designed to eliminate co-channel interference regardless of how many devices are using the Wi-Fi network.
Because of this, the actual speed delivered over the technology is 10 times faster than the real-world speeds of 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi technologies, the company claims.
Samsung added that the technology uses a wide-coverage beam-forming antenna to address the weak penetration properties of millimeter-wave transmissions. It uses micro beam-forming control technology to speed up the optimization of the communications module.
The vendor hopes to commercialize the technology as early as next year, for applications including telecom equipment, IoT-related devices and audio-visual and medical devices.
The Wi-Fi Alliance kicked off the certification program for WiGig, a Wi-Fi standard based on the 60-GHz band, in September last year.