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News Release from: Intersil
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 February 2002
Intersil and Cisco work towards new IEEE
standard
Intersil and Cisco Systems are collaborating on high-speed WLAN client adapter reference designs for the in-progress IEEE802.11g draft standard for datarates up to 54Mbit/s at 2.4GHz.
Intersil and Cisco Systems are collaborating on high-speed WLAN client adapter reference designs for the in-progress IEEE802.11g draft standard for datarates up to 54Mbit/s at 2.4GHz The 802.11g standard offers much faster datarates for enterprise networking and also supports multiple simultaneous channels of DVD-quality video and CD-quality audio for home use
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Oct 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The joint client reference design, which will be compatible with Cisco WLAN infrastructures, will be available to 3rd party OEMs to incorporate into new WLAN products.
For the design, Intersil will contribute its physical layer (PHY) technology including its newly announced high rate 2.4GHz Prism GT chipset, while Cisco will provide its media access controller (MAC) architecture and enterprise-class client software featuring enhanced security and network management.
The reference design based on the IEEE 802.11g draft standard offers OEMs everything they need to quickly and cost-effectively produce client devices that deliver data rates of up to 54Mbit/s, with backward compatibility with existing IEEE 802.11b devices and meeting the IEEE 802.1x/EAP security standard.
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As the main aspects of the draft standard are now well established, industry adoption is expected to gain momentum in the second half of 2002.
Intersil's Prism-based high-speed WLAN chipset solution will support the two mandatory modulation techniques, complementary code keying (CCK) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).
Products are scheduled to appear in the second half of 2002.
"Today's dominant WLAN offerings, based on 802.11b, will continue to lead in cost, power and range; while the emerging products based on the high speed IEEE 802.11a standard will allow operation in the broad, uncluttered 5GHz frequency band", said Bill Rossi, vice president and general manager of Cisco Systems' Wireless Networking Business Unit.
"802.11g is an important complement to these standards, offering backward compatibility to 802.11b products with much higher datarates".
"Cisco is committed to offering versions of these technologies that enable WLAN manufacturers to develop client solutions that leverage the power of Cisco-equipped WLAN infrastructures using all these 802.11 technologies".
"This new agreement will accelerate efforts for us to offer a high speed, standards-based solution in the 2.4GHz band to our worldwide customer base", said Greg Williams, president and CEO of Intersil.
"The combination of Cisco's worldwide networking leadership and Intersil's innovative wireless technology will help drive the acceptance of 802.11g technology resulting in a new generation of high speed WLAN products for business and home use".
The development of a joint reference design by Intersil and Cisco is a key element in plans to bring IEEE 802.11g products to market more quickly.
The reference design, embodied in a chipset delivered by Intersil, will incorporate Cisco's enhanced security and network support features as well as Intersil's high rate 2.4GHz Prism GT chipset.
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