The IEEE has now formally approved the 802.11ac -2013 update which boasts as much as 7 Gbps of data in the 5 GHz spectrum. The 802.11ac -2013 update is an addendum to the initial 802.11ac specification, which in 2013 began to emerge in both enterprise and consumer devices as the next generation of wireless, following the widely deployed 802.11n standard.
With the new 802.11ac -2013 update, the wireless specification gets even faster than originally designed.
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802.11ac Wi-Fi Gets Speed Boost to 7 Gbps
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