WLAN Forum - 802.11p - ett protokoll för vägtullar och informationstjänster

dailywireless.org skriver om den nya standarden 802.11p, också kallad DSRC::
The IEEE 802.11p Task Group was established for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE). The Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) is a general purpose communications link between the vehicle and the roadside (or between vehicles) using the 802.11p protocol. ABI estimates that this sort of vehicular communications could see initial expenditures of $1 billion shortly. ITS America stressed the need to support the adoption of a single nationwide standard in the FCC rules

The new 802.11p protocol, just months old, improves on the range and speed of transmission on the dedicated 5.9 GHz licensed band, promising around 1,000 feet and 6 Mbit/s in average use, say reports. The vehicular communications protocol is aimed at vehicles, such as toll collection, vehicle safety services, and commerce transactions via cars. The US government is pushing forward to cover the highways with access points that support this new type of extra-secure hotspots, that ride over 5.9 GHz.