In Apple’s effort to completely do away with wired networking, they plan on deploying support for WiFi 802.11ac on their devices this year, according to a report by Apple Insider. This is also called ‘Gigabit WiFi’ and, as the name implies, such a network could go faster than one Gigabit per second data transfer rate. This potentially means that Apple TVs, Macs, and mobile devices could be downloading information at much faster rate than they have been in the past. Even the prospect of such a high wireless transfer rate is enough to get many folks excited.

While 802.11ac is not an official standard as of yet, Apple has been known to be ahead of the curve when it comes to wireless technology, and consequently, they have been among the first adopters of a new consumer-grade technology in the past.

And it’s a fair bet that this will pay off again.