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`By EETimes < https://www.eetimes.com/author/eetimes/> 10.03.2005
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`MADRID, Spain – The logjam that has delayed agreement on the IEEE 802.11n high data-
`rate WLAN standard will be broken soon, and a standard agreed by the middle of next
`year, a senior executive from Broadcom Corp. told the World Broadband Forum.
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`Michael Hurlston, vice president of the communications chip company’s wireless and home
`networking business unit, also suggested there would be interoperable products on the
`market soon after.
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`Speaking to EE Times after the session comparing different technologies that are vying for
`distributing video over home networks – such as powerline, Home PNA, coax and Wi-Fi,
`Hurlston said the standardization effort is “plagued by difficult issues and far too much
`politics”, but said Broadcom is optimistic discussions between the competing groups,
`WWiSE and TGn Sync would come up with a solution.
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`“If people go off and develop a subset of the standard outside of the IEEE 802.11 working
`groups, the end game would be to bring back such as splinter group into the fold,” said
`Hurlston.
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`He was referring to suggestions that Intel Corp, Atheros Communications Inc and Marvell
`Semiconductors, and including Broadcom itself, have linked on an interoperable physical
`and media access controller layer and plan to submit this to the IEEE by November.
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`This move has angered several of the task groups members.
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