WiGig, VESA Team to Develop Wireless DisplayPort
The WiGig Alliance and the VESA video standards organization said that the two would develop a next-generation wireless DisplayPort technology.
The WiGig Alliance and the VESA video standards organization said that the two would develop a next-generation wireless DisplayPort technology.
The WiGig Alliance also announced that it had completed version 1.0 of the A/V and I/O protocol adaptation layer specifications, which will be published in early 2011. It also named AMD as a new director of the consortium.
WiGig and VESA also said that they will set up a certification program for the technology, which will run in parallel. The first early adoption of the technology will likely happen in 2012, probably via direct integration and not a dongle, said Ali Sadri, WiGig's president and chairman, in an interview.
At that point, WiGig will have to compete with several entrenched wireless display solutions, including Intel's WiDi, which is , plus Amimon's , and others.
It's a question that Sadri said he hears quite a bit. "There are opportunities in the short term for anybody to make money now," he said. "But when we talk about millions, or hundreds or millions of components...the market size is so large that it needs a unified standard. It needs and HDMI definition, it needs a DisplayPort definition."
The WiGig protocol uses the 60-GHz spectrum, far away from the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz frequencies used by the current generation of 802.11a/b/g/n devices. The group has already for a joint solution, which is .
Once the specification with VESA is published, it can be submitted for HDCP certification, allowing any WiGig-certified developer to win HDCP approval by extension, Sadri said.