A new Wi-Fi specification will allow wireless devices to discover and connect to one another without a router.
The spec, called Wi-Fi Direct, was announced on Wednesday by the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group that promotes the technology. By making it much easier for devices to connect directly to each other using Wi-Fi, the new spec could pose a challenge to wireless technologies such as Bluetooth.
Wi-Fi Direct works by allowing Wi-Fi-enabled devices — such as phones, cameras, printers, computers, keyboards and headphones — to connect to other Wi-Fi devices individually or to multiple devices at once. The spec will support standard Wi-Fi data rates, and the devices will be able to connect to one another within about 100m. This would allow just about any device with built-in Wi-Fi to use wireless broadband instead of Bluetooth. It could even eliminate the need for Wi-Fi routers in some places.
For more on this story, see New Wi-Fi spec challenges Bluetooth on CNET News.
The spec, called Wi-Fi Direct, was announced on Wednesday by the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group that promotes the technology. By making it much easier for devices to connect directly to each other using Wi-Fi, the new spec could pose a challenge to wireless technologies such as Bluetooth.
Wi-Fi Direct works by allowing Wi-Fi-enabled devices — such as phones, cameras, printers, computers, keyboards and headphones — to connect to other Wi-Fi devices individually or to multiple devices at once. The spec will support standard Wi-Fi data rates, and the devices will be able to connect to one another within about 100m. This would allow just about any device with built-in Wi-Fi to use wireless broadband instead of Bluetooth. It could even eliminate the need for Wi-Fi routers in some places.
For more on this story, see New Wi-Fi spec challenges Bluetooth on CNET News.
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