Note that pre-902.11g never had an Wi-Fi Alliance standard, while pre-802.11n Draft 2.0 does.
The silicon vendors and enterprise ecosystem have too much at stake to allow the IEEE process to finalize a standard that is incompatible with the draft one. That said, it doesn't mean the first 802.11n products will work perfectly, and our lab's tests with one vendors' post-GA builds have shown that to be the case. But the source of that has nothing to do with the standard but the implementation of it, and the solution to those issues will be software based, not hardware. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Dale W. Carder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] The Aesthetics of 11n? On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: > I think what the vendors are offering now will work > with the final standard with minimal or no compatibility issues. If it's anything like the pre-g crap that was on the market before that was standardized, then this is a fallacy. The hardware might have been close enough, but it took months for some client vendors to get it right *after* it was standardized. We have standards for a reason, folks. Dale ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
