Building on the success of the QCA9005 tri-band wireless solution, the latest generation tri-band wireless networking card takes advantage of the new Qualcomm VIVE 802.11ac combined with the recently ratified 802.11ad standard that enables multi-gigabit networking, data syncing, and video and audio streaming, while maintaining its wireless bus extension docking capabilities.

ENGADGET: Qualcomm and Wilocity cram 802.11ac and 802.11ad into single tri-band design

Evidently two years wasn't long enough to find an acceptable industry standard stack to deliver video over IP, so TiVo and the cable industry requested an extension.

ENGADGET: FCC clarifies set-top box IP interface requirement and extends deadline to 2014

Robert Lapiner, dean of UCLA Extension, describes the online effort as simply an expansion of the video endeavor.

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