Multi-gigabit wireless data transfer technique can be the 'Bluetooth Killer'

All of us know that transferring data from your PC to your cell phone via Bluetooth is a tedious task. Transferring a single song encoded at 128Kbps takes more than five minutes to go from a PC to a cell phone. With the amount of data that needs to be transferred increasing, we need to devise some more techniques that can be fast and efficient.

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique of wireless data transfer that can reach speeds in gigabits per second. This technique can surely change the way we are used to transfer data. Researchers also claim that the technique is so advanced that it can replace the cables altogether for bandwidth-hungry devices.

The technology is based on radio-frequencies around the 60GHz range and has already been tested over small distances. The technology achieves a whooping speed of 15Gbps that is nearly 2GBps at a distance of one meter. When the distance is extended by a meter the speed drops down to 10Gbps and remains at 5Gbps at 5 meters.

According to researchers more work on the technique can enable them to transfer double the amount of data in the same time. They also hope that the technique will be fully developed in the next three years and will find application areas in MP3 players, cell phones, HDDs, DVD players and more. The best feature of this new technology is that it is backwards-compatible with the existing Wi-Fi standards.

Via: Tech Report