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Not going to happen anywhere soon except in a proof of concept lab.

You might have missed this part:

The new technology, which will not be ready for the commercial market before 2020 at the earliest...

I'm wondering about anticipated cost. Also, scalability. And how well it performs in difficult environments, like urban areas, and indoors.

Streuth. First a famine and then a flood.
Does someone want to bring up Shannon's Law?
http://en.wikiped..._theorem
The data rate varies with the frequency. I guess that is why they are using mm wavelengths and a bristle of antennae. I guess that each antenna is tuned to a different frequency.
I wish them well.

why not keep working and develop 10G by the next ten years. Instead of migrating by one generation a decade, we hope we can skip right ahead to 10G by then :)

Because they need to milk each generation for all it's worth first.

According to Samsung's website it's one gigabit per second, not gigabyte, 1/8th the speed advertised in this article. Physorg should know better.

Source: http://global.sam...?p=24093
Specifically:

at a speed of up to 1.056 Gbps