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Wi-Fi Direct coming next year

Simon Morley - Friday, October 16, 2009

Announced earlier this week by the Wi-Fi Alliance, by 2010 Wi-Fi devices will be able to talk directly to each other. At the moment unless you set up an ad-hoc network, when communicating with another machines, all traffic is passed through your router. The future extension will allow all sorts of connections to your machine including printers, mobile phones, mice and keyboards.

As Mac users, we've sort of been able to do this for ages, but it's not really been implemented widely. The new specification will bring greater speed and ultimately kill bluetooth (?).

We think this is a great way to reduce the load on large networks and are glad that Wi-Fi's looking like a technology that's going to be around for a little longer!