gigawire explained

leftbrainleftbrain
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
i don't know if anyone saw this, but if not....it's pretty good account of what we are going to have soon:



<a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15463.html#story-start"; target="_blank">http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15463.html#story-start</a>;

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 10
    programmerprogrammer Posts: 3,458member
    The only problem with that is that 802.11e is desperately slow compared to FireWire -- 54Mbps compared to 400Mbps. FireWire2 will be 800Mbps or 1.6 Gbps.



    That said, a move to 802.11e would be welcome for the AirPort.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    bradbowerbradbower Posts: 1,068member
    At first I was skeptical, but after reading the evidence in that story, I now believe it and it fits together pretty well.



    I just hope my newly purchased AirPort 2 base station can do GigaWire!
  • Reply 3 of 10
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    GigaWire is a lame name. FireWire is much cooler.
  • Reply 4 of 10
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by MacAgent:

    <strong>GigaWire is a lame name. FireWire is much cooler.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I think changing the name from Firewire to Gigawire is a bad idea. Of the small percentage of computer users who actually know what the former is, most of them associate it with "fast"- which is good. As long as Apple updates the specs to keep it "fast" in most user's minds, they have everything to benefit from the old name.
  • Reply 5 of 10
    razzfazzrazzfazz Posts: 728member
    [quote]Originally posted by bradbower:

    <strong>I just hope my newly purchased AirPort 2 base station can do GigaWire! </strong><hr></blockquote>



    If the author is indeed correct, and GigaWire will indeed use the 5GHz band, then the antennas used for current Airport (which operates at 2.4GHz) are completely useless. Kinda doubt this would be a smart move to make.



    Besides, if I remember correctly, there are legal issues with using 5 GHz wireless networking technology in Europe.



    And last but not least, whereas the OSOpinion author states that the patent descriptions for FireWire and GigaWire are "surprisingly similar", nearly everyone else on the web seems to agree that they are in fact surprisingly dissimilar.



    Bye,

    RazzFazz
  • Reply 6 of 10
    tjmtjm Posts: 367member
    The wireless clustering is the most interesting aspect for me at the moment. How many graphic design shops do you suppose would like to have every CPU on every machine in the place available for every rendering job? I gotta believe there's some drooling going on over this...
  • Reply 7 of 10
    berbercarpetberbercarpet Posts: 242member
    [quote]Originally posted by TJM:

    <strong>The wireless clustering is the most interesting aspect for me at the moment. How many graphic design shops do you suppose would like to have every CPU on every machine in the place available for every rendering job? I gotta believe there's some drooling going on over this...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Most of the graphic design shops I know use beige G3s, a Cube or two and a lot of iMacs.



    Very few have a space full of G4's laying around, and even the designers that do have a G4 are using Netscape 4.7.



    They have no idea what clustering is.





    But the ones that *do* get it are--you're right--drooling.
  • Reply 8 of 10
    bradbowerbradbower Posts: 1,068member
    Yeah, you're right. The speed discrepancy, and the patent text.. it's all wrong. GigaWire sounds like the next iteration of FireWire, but maybe it isn't. Or maybe it is, but GigaWire isn't what OSOpinion is saying it is--their story sounded fishy from the start . Seriously though, why would Apple call a the next faster version of AirPort "GigaWire"? Also, does anybody have PROOF that IEEE1394e or whatever (I thought it was IEEE802.11b!?!) is actually on the 5GHz bandwidth?



    This makes less sense than ever.
  • Reply 9 of 10
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    I also wonder why we would call a wireless technology gigawire :confused: <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
  • Reply 10 of 10
    razzfazzrazzfazz Posts: 728member
    [quote]Originally posted by bradbower:

    <strong>Also, does anybody have PROOF that IEEE1394e or whatever (I thought it was IEEE802.11b!?!) is actually on the 5GHz bandwidth?

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Actually, it's 802.11e.

    And you're right, the "e" flavour uses 2.4GHz. I was confusing it with 802.11a (which 54Mb/s too, but runs at 5GHz).



    Bye,

    RazzFazz
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