Gi-Fi


Gi-Fi or gigabit wireless refers to wireless communication at a bit rate of at least one gigabit per second.
By 2004 some trade press used the term "Gi-Fi" to refer to faster versions of the IEEE 802.11 standards marketed under the trademark Wi-Fi.
In 2008 researchers at the University of Melbourne demonstrated a transceiver on a single integrated circuit operating at 60 GHz on the CMOS process, allowing wireless communication speeds of up to 5Gbit/s within a range. Some press reports called this "GiFi". It was developed by the Melbourne University-based laboratories of NICTA.
In 2009, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance was formed to promote the technology. It used the term "WiGig" which avoided trademark confusion.