Comments on: Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With New P2P Standard http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wi-Fi Direct Promises Device-to-Device Connectivity: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-361624 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:13:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-361624 [...] enabled device. It could also be used for home entertainment networking or multi-player gaming. As Stacey pointed out last year, she could back up her computer on her Wi-Fi Direct-enabled hard drive without ever having to jump [...]

]]> By: Wi-Fi: It Just Keeps Going and Growing http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226726 Fri, 14 May 2010 19:31:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226726 [...] video transfer technology using spectrum in the 60GHz band and the peer-to-peer network technology known as Wi-Fi Direct. The story also lays out how Wi-Fi can be used for unified mesh networks — similar to the [...]

]]> By: » Blog Archive http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226725 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:14:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226725 [...] Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With New P2P Standard (gigaom.com) Tags: BearExtender n3 , laptop , MacBook , notebook , Universal Serial Bus , USB , Wi-Fi , wifi , Wifi Range Extender , wireless , Wireless Access Point (No Ratings Yet)  Loading … [...]

]]> By: 2009 Review, 2010 Predictions | DASH7 Alliance Blog http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226724 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:23:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226724 [...] announcement signalled WiFi’s intent to capture more of the home automation market that is coveted by the Bluetooth/Zigbee/ZWave crowd.  Home automation is already shaping up to be [...]

]]> By: WiFi Leaves A Horse’s Head in ZigBee’s Bed | DASH7 Alliance Blog http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226723 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:12:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226723 [...] claim by a zigbot that they were looking forward to tracking things that move using zigbee, and an announcement this morning by the wifi alliance about a new spec for adding wifi to all sorts of consumer electronics devices to wifi-enable them.  TV’s, [...]

]]> By: Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With New P2P Standard | Hardfly.net Blogs http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226722 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:02:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226722 [...] more here: Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With New P2P Standard [...]

]]> By: Wi-Fi Direct explained for those who think it is ad-hoc mode revisited http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226721 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:32:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226721 [...] it does contain most of the ad-hoc stack, the recently announced Wi-Fi Direct standard is actually an attempt to become more like Bluetooth. Ever since Wi-Fi was invented, ad-hoc mode [...]

]]> By: Alan Cheslow: Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With New P2P Standard | Consumer Electronics | Connected Devices | Digital Home http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226720 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:40:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226720 [...] Cheslow Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With New P2P Standard – http://gigaom.com/2009… 32 minutes [...]

]]> By: Bye Bye Bluetooth | TechDusts http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226719 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:45:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226719 [...] GigaOM : Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With New P2P Standard by Stacey Higginbotham [...]

]]> By: Todd http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226718 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:52:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226718 Just an FYI for those as interested in this subject as I:

The modem that comes with AT&T’s U-verse emits wifi. Once installed, you could theoretically, have no PC in the home, but all your devices could connect out to the internet solely through the modem.

]]> By: What Wi-Fi Direct means to you - SmartPlanet http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226717 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:29:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226717 [...] idea here is to extend the standard, which can’t get much faster than the current 802.11n speed of 100 Mbps, and to compete [...]

]]> By: P2P WiFi standard of the WiFi alliance is great for Fon http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226716 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:10:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226716 [...] long awaited WiFi P2P has been announced. This is how Om Malik describes [...]

]]> By: tom http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226715 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:09:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226715 while i do not see this as anything new or different than ad-hoc it is coming at an interesting time. as more and more people move to 3G/4G connections routers will start to disappear and this sort of solution will become more necessary in keeping devices such as printers connected in the home.

]]> By: Micah http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226714 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:40:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226714 A child’s toy could do this in 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko

I considered it a revolution ten years ago. Now it is just late to the game.

]]> By: tom http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226713 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:16:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226713 how is this different from the WIFi Adhoc mode that has been there from the beginning?

]]> By: Wi-Fi Direct Turns Wireless Devices into Hotspots That Talk to Each Other http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-gets-a-boost-with-new-p2p-standard/#comment-226712 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:11:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=74643#comment-226712 [...] exactly what the Wi-Fi Alliance is doing with its Wi-Fi Direct initiative. Wi-Fi Direct, expected around the second half of 2010, leverages the Wi-Fi enabled devices you have and lets them connect directly to each other. In [...]

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