Getting to multi-gigabit wireless. Yes gigabit!

Samsung is actually talking about ways we can get multi-gigabit networks on wireless.

Speaking at the Texas Wireless summit, Jerry Pi, a researcher with Samsung, showed how we can use millimeter wave spectrum to deliver up to 5.5 gigabit per second wireless connections. While, Pi declined to say how far off something like this is, Ted Rappaport, director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group with the University of Texas and the host of the conference said he imagined this sort of technology being about 5 years out. Indeed, Pi showed ways that a test network using millimeter wave broadband could be built today. Of course, to build a fully functioning mobile broadband network, many elements have to come together–some of which are out of Samsung’s control.