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People walk behind a glass window bearing the logo of Samsung Electronics at the company's headquarters in Seoul November 6, 2009. Reuters/Choi Bu-Seok

The Korean tech giant in the coming year is looking to make data transmission to reach its maximum speed. Streaming high definition videos and transferring movies in seconds between devices will become a reality. Samsung has branded the 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi standard that is commercially possible.

Samsung has made a breakthrough in the Wi-Fi technology. Previous attempts to use 60 GHz band for Wi-Fi had problems because data transmitted through a line of sight had weak penetration properties resulting in poor signal and data performance.

The 802.11ad can transmit up to a speed of 4.6 Gbps and if co-channels are eliminated the speed can reach up to the maximum limit. The actual speed will be ten times faster than 2.4 GHZ and 5 GHz Wi-Fi technology.

The research team used a wide coverage beam forming antenna and also by eliminating co-channel interference despite the number of devices using the same network that Samsung has said that it has overcome the obstacle and now the product using the 802.11ab can go on sale next year.

Some of the products that will use this technology are medical devices and audio visual including the telecommunication products. This technology according to Samsung will also be used in Smart Homes as well as anything connected to the use of internet.

Samsung also goes on to state that it would take less than three seconds to transfer 1 GB movie between devices. High definition videos that are uncompressed can be streamed from the mobile phone on to the TV without any delay. Samsung's next generation devices will have new and innovative changes and the possibility has opened up for the future development of the Wi-Fi technology.

According to ZDNet as Samsung moves ahead with the Wi-Fi technology earlier this month there was news that the Korean company is paying Microsoft $1 billion per year towards patent royalties for the use of Redmond owned intellectual property contained within Android.

At present, there is a court case going on between Microsoft and Samsung to decide whether the purchase of Nokia voided the patent agreement between the companies as Samsung is claiming.