The growing demand for increased channel capacity has resulted in a lot of research into MIMO systems.

This technology is called Multiple Input/Multiple Output, or MIMO; essentially, because of the multiple antennae involved, more streams of data can be resolved simultaneously, improving download and streaming speed significantly.

Wireless-N generally offers a wider coverage area than the older standard, 802.11g, partly due to the MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) antennas.