Samsung Claims It’s Created Wi-Fi Speeds Five Times Faster than Current Speeds

Your Wi-Fi connection might be getting faster… a lot faster. Kim Chang Yong announced over the weekend that Samsung has been able to overcome the current barriers for the commercialization of 60GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology. As head of the DMC R&D center for the Korean electronics giant, Samsung, Yong announced the arrival of transmission speeds that can go up to 4.65bps, essentially rendering standard Wi-Fi technology systems, that operate on 2.4GHz as well as on the 5GHz, obsolete.

The earliest possible launch of the technology in the market is by the first quarter of 2015, so most consumers won’t know until then if the claim is true But if it is, it could very well put Samsung in a dominant position and Samsung stock is likely going to soar.

The reality of a 60GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology is unmatched. If it does happen, it’ll be, by far, the fastest Wi-Fi technology in the world. Imagine being able to transfer movie files in seconds rather than minutes. Sure, being able to do it in minutes is fast, but Samsung is saying, with this breakthrough Wi-Fi technology, that the process can go faster. And by the look of things, faster means more than five times faster than the speed we know and operate by today.

That’s a whole lot of speed and quickness. Even more exciting to imagine is that this technology is just a few months away. These faster Wi-Fi reports come on the heels of Samsung deciding to pay Microsoft patent royalties amounting to $1 billion per year. This will allow the South Korean electronics company to use the Redmond-owned intellectual property inherent in Android systems.

All signs point to how serious Samsung is about making the technology work. But how did Samsung fix the lagtime? How did Samsung bridge the gap between actual and theoretical speeds?

Since data transmissions are often impeded by walls, Samsung built a wide-coverage beam-forming antenna, along with a micro beam-forming control technology which is the first the world has ever seen, in order to eliminate the impediment in transmission caused by walls. The antenna and beam-forming control technology combined with the millimeter-wave circuit design, made the impossible possible and is at the base of Samsung’s Wi-Fi win.

With this kind of technology, there’s so much possibility in the air, so much speculation about what the technology can do, and what it’s really capable of and what it will change. This will also make the next batch or release of Samsung’s devices and products wildly exciting. We can safely assume that the whole world, and not just Android lovers, will be watching.

(Photo courtesy of Dana Spiegel)