National Instruments announced early access support for testing next-generation 802.11ac WLAN chipsets and devices. This announcement exemplifies how NI’s modular, software-defined wireless test ...

You may think of 802.11ac as a technology more useful for streaming HDTV than for corporate use, but you'd be mistaken. The company found that while 802.11ac is being adopted quickly, it still has a ...

November 23, 2012 — Aeroflex has announced a new test system based on its PXI 3000 Series modular instrumentation, which has been designed to offer measurements over a 160-MHz bandwidth at operating ...

I picked up a new 2013 MacBook Air and an updated Time Capsule with 802.11ac. My network speeds were barely better than 802.11n which I chalked up to the OS X issues: In my setup, Network Utility ...

Last December customers were peppering wireless LAN vendors with questions about whether to upgrade to the pre-standard-but-certified 802.11ac products flooding the market or hold off until 2015, when ...

Earlier this year we tested several consumer-level 802.11ac routers. Here, we take a look at two enterprise-level access points. They’re a part of the so-called “Wave 1” phase of the 802.11ac standard ...

Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are the first Apple mobile devices to come equipped with 802.11ac Wi-Fi, which supports much faster data throughput speeds. 802.11ac Wi-Fi is able to offer connection ...

Apple's 2013 MacBook Air doesn't look like much of an upgrade from the outside, but the story is different on the inside. We've spent the better part of a week using the new Air and measuring just how ...

Dazzling users with specification sheets is nothing new: screen sizes, resolutions, megapixels, memory sizes and processor speeds are just a few, but one of the most neglected and important is WiFi ...

ABI Research's Jake Saunders, VP and practice director of forecasting, is reporting that while "802.11n device shipments still dominate the market, accounting for more than two thirds of total device ...

Quantenna announces the first 4x4 (quad-stream) 802.11ac chipset. The new chipset, which offers a cap speed of 1.7Gbps, is slated to be used in products later this year. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo ...