There will be a significant uptick of IPTV...

There will be a significant uptick of IPTV providers’ adoption of 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology in IP set-top boxes in 2015, Infonetics Research said Thursday. The 802.11n dual-mode and 2X2 MIMO technologies are currently the most prevalent Wi-Fi technologies in IP set-top boxes, but 67 percent of providers who participated in the Infonetics survey indicated they would begin using 802.11ac next year. About 6 percent of surveyed providers said they were already using the technology, Infonetics said. Survey respondents rated remote programming via tablet or mobile devices highest among all set-top box applications, with 67 percent of respondents rating it highly, Infonetics said (http://bit.ly/1kEi92T).