Ruckus Wireless, yet another impatient Wi-Fi vendor unable to wait for the IEEE 802.11n standard to be ratified, not expected before 2008, announced today a pre-802.11n product. So many companies have announced and are shipping pre-802.11n devices that the Wi-Fi Alliance this summer said it will begin certifying for interoperability pre-standard 802.11n products in mid 2007. Karen Hanley, senior director of mark Ruckus Wireless, yet another impatient Wi-Fi vendor unable to wait for the IEEE 802.11n standard to be ratified, not expected before 2008, announced today a pre-802.11n product. So many companies have announced and are shipping pre-802.11n devices that the Wi-Fi Alliance this summer said it will begin certifying for interoperability pre-standard 802.11n products in mid 2007.Karen Hanley, senior director of marketing at the Alliance said there is a great deal of interest in the 802.11n standard due to its promise of four to six times performance improvement over 802.11g with an improved range that will offer what Hanley called “whole home coverage” with a single access point. Ruckus said today it will demonstrate at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas during the first week of January a Wi-Fi transport technology that will allow whole home coverage for multiple HDTV streams, digital voice, music and data simultaneously.The Ruckus technology will support carriers wishing to offer IPTV service to its customers. Besides its ability to offer multiple multimedia data streams, Ruckus also uses what it calls its BeamFlex smart antenna technology to steer Wi-Fi signals around obstacles to avoid interference. Technology Industry