Introducing IEEE 802.11r

[Planet]

On July 15th of this year, without much fanfare, the IEEE published the final specification for IEEE 802.11r-2008, also known as Fast Basic Service Set Transition, an amendment to the 802.11 standard that supports fast handoff between access points—specifically in order to enable VoIP roaming on a Wi-Fi network with 802.1X authentication.

Kelly Davis-Felner, senior director for the Wi-Fi Alliance, says the key strength of the new standard lies in the fact that it brings the handoff time between APs down to below the 50 millisecond mark, which, she says, “is widely accepted as the point at which it would be perceptible on a voice call.”

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[Fringer]

There's an R already? I haven't use an N and now there's an R? Hmmm...will this be useful for everyday use? I mean how many R compatible devices out there already?

[Planet]

It doesn't look like we're going to see 802.11r devices on the market until about another 2 years.

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Fringer - R isn't a biggerbetterfaster N

R is roaming. Walking around a college campus or manufacturing plant with a wifi phone. radio controlling a radiation sensing robot around a nuclear research site.