The IEEE Standards Association has recently approved a new wireless Internet technology known as WiGig (that’s 802.11ad to you technophiles out there).

What makes this such big news is the blazing fast speeds at which WiGig wireless routers and other networking equipment will be able to transfer data over a Wi-Fi connection. The newly approved WiGig standard is theoretically capable of wirelessly transferring data at the mind-boggling rate of 7 Gbps, a speed that will make the Wireless N speeds that we currently use seem like a snail’s pace. [Read more…]