An industry-standards group has given its blessing to a proposal for the next-generation 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, paving the way for 600-Mbit/s products by 2006. That the standard was approved was no surprise: members of the IEEE working group had resolved their differences last week, banding together to support a modified proposal from the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, led by Atheros, Broadcom, and Intel.

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