{"id":13325,"date":"2014-05-20T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13325"},"modified":"2014-05-20T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:42:50","slug":"wi-fi-networks-are-wasting-a-gigabit-but-multi-user-beamforming-will-save-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13325","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi networks are wasting a gigabit\u2014but multi-user beamforming will save the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine a single smartphone or tablet needing to receive more than 433Mbps of data. But the fact that MU-MIMO-powered Wi-Fi will be able to serve more users simultaneously could bring huge benefits to large-scale wireless networks, like those in airports, convention centers, and sports stadiums. Real-world throughput will end up being something lower than 433Mbps to each user because of networking overhead and other limitations, but given that a high-definition Netflix stream is just 5Mbps, there isn&#8217;t much reason to worry about that yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/05\/wi-fi-networks-are-wasting-a-gigabit-but-multi-user-beamforming-will-save-the-day\/\">Wi-Fi networks are wasting a gigabit\u2014but multi-user beamforming will save the day | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first 11ac products implemented single-user beamforming, sending one transmission to a single receiver. Multi-user beamforming, coming in the next wave of 11ac products this year and next year, enables\u00a0MU-MIMO and its simultaneous transmission to multiple devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine a single smartphone or tablet needing to receive more than 433Mbps of data. But the fact that MU-MIMO-powered Wi-Fi will be able to serve more users simultaneously could bring huge benefits to large-scale wireless networks, like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1245,465,1301,78],"class_list":["post-13325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-802-11ac","tag-access-point","tag-radio-transmission","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13327,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions\/13327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}