Wireless can help technology deliver flipped classroom education
Yesterday a video and article appeared on the BBC’s News website about Meru customer – Essa Academy – and their use of technology in the school. The video shows how the school children are using iPads on which to do their school work as well as their homework. According to the site, through the use [...]
Gigabit Wi-Fi? Really?
There has been a fair amount of recent news coverage of a faster version of Wi-Fi coming, called WiGig and capable of greater than 1Gbps. WiGig is an IEEE 802.11 amendment, specifically 802.11ad, for 60GHz operation at greater than a gigabit speed. The high-frequency spectrum used prevents the network from reaching through walls or around [...]
802.11n – A long time coming (short chronicle of the 802.11n ratification history)
One may ask why it took two years for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 working group to produce the final standard of 802.11n, when an interoperable and practicable Draft 2.0 was available back in 2007. The answer involves peeling back the layers of the operation of the IEEE standards development organization. [...]
