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Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Intersil | Subject: Prism/work
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2001
Wireless LAN technology for the
workplace
Intersil is introducing a new brand of wireless products called Prism/work specifically designed to meet the growing need for wireless LANs in the workplace.
Intersil is introducing a new brand of wireless products called Prism/work specifically designed to meet the growing need for wireless LANs in the workplace The company is targeting the enterprise and OEM market with a new range of products that provide business users with a higher level of standards-based performance including longer range, faster data rates, increased quality of service, improved ruggedness and interoperability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new Prism/work product range complements Intersil's recently announced Prism/home product brand, which provides lower cost wireless chipsets optimised for the home market.
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Forming separate work and home product families will allow Intersil to focus separately on these very different markets with specially designed chipsets optimised for each market.
"Our Prism/work team are focusing on the specific requirements of the enterprise and OEM markets with a range of standards-compatible high-rate IEEE 802.11b 2.4 GHz wireless chipsets for 11Mbit/s operation.
And even higher speed 5GHz solutions wireless LAN products are planned for next year", said Larry Ciaccia, vice president and general manager of Prism Wireless Products at Intersil.
Intersil's Prism II and Prism 2.5 WLAN chip sets are at he heart of the Prism/work portfolio, which includes reference designs, evaluation kits, firmware and software in addition to the highly integrated silicon chipsets.
Prism II delivers an 11Mbit/s data rate and is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.11b standard.
The Prism II reference design is also Wi-FiT certified by the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA), thus ensuring multivendor interoperability.
The Prism 2.5 chipset reduces the chipcount to just four ICs by integrating the baseband processor and MAC into a single highly integrated IC ideal for compact PC card, PCMIA and portable applications.
"We have found that Enterprise and OEM customers require high performance in terms of range, data rates, interoperability and security", said Jim Zyren, director of Enterprise and OEM Products.
"And access points must provide load balancing and roaming facilities for multiple access with seamless campus-wide coverage.
Our strategy is to provide complete WLAN solutions that enable our customers to lead the market with standards-based solutions offering the highest data rates and operational integrity".
Intersil plans to continue developing new generations of Prism solutions for the 2.4GHz band to provide the most advanced and cost effective solutions for WLAN applications.
The company recently announced its 5GHz product development roadmap targeted at the higher speed IEEE 802.11a and HIPERLAN/2 applications, as well as the development of combined Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 wireless operation in a single dual-radio module.
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