Ottawa wireless company patents "multi-lane" Wi-Fi

By Lynn Greiner OTTAWA – Wi-Fi tech developer Edgewater Wireless announced last week it has patented what it calls the first multi-lane highway for Wi-Fi. Its Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing, or MCSR (Multi-Channel, Single Radio), offers an approach designed specifically to tackle the billions of connected devices globally. The technology was developed in partnership with the cable industry's R&D arm CableLabs. Edgewater says that dual channel wi-fi means five things: No more dropouts. No more lag. Seamless connections for video applications or gaming. Latency reduction by using two separate channels for connecting devices. Multiple, concurrent downlink-only channels reduces contention and takes...