Atheros third-gen wireless LAN technology boosts performance and range.Atheros Communications has introduced seven new chipsets that cover the gamut See color gamut. gamut - The gamut of a monitor is the set of colours it can display. There are some colours which can't be made up of a mixture of red, green and blue phosphor emissions and so can't be displayed by any monitor. of WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network applications. These chipsets support multiple WLAN standards with optimizations for different market segments and price points. A single driver and firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. code base supports all the chipsets, providing both backward and forward Adv. 1. backward and forward - moving from one place to another and back again; "he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York"; "the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner"; "the old man just sat on the porch and rocked back and forth all compatibility with Atheros' legacy and next-generation multi-standard designs. The new chipsets feature third-generation wireless technology that boosts throughput and range, while decreasing power consumption and cost. "Atheros is supporting all the standards, covering all the international tuning ranges, setting new benchmarks for performance and range, and making WLANs both foolproof and future proof," said Allen Nogee, senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR. "Their broad range of design wins and steady stream of new products are testaments to Atheros' power in wireless LANs A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area . We expect Atheros to maintain a position of prominence as the market for multi-mode solutions develops." "We are announcing availability of our third-generation 802.11a/b/g and 802.11b/g silicon, while competitors still struggle to launch their first-generation products with 802.11a support," said Craig Barratt, president and chief executive officer of Atheros. "Meanwhile, our 802.11g products are dominating benchmarks by the PC OEMs, enterprise and retail vendors, and the industry press. System developers have fielded nearly 200 products based on our chipsets, and both system developers and end users will find more of what they like in our third-generation chips." These chipsets are the most highly integrated WLAN products available today. They include all of the functionality needed to implement a client subsystem A unit or device that is part of a larger system. For example, a disk subsystem is a part of a computer system. A bus is a part of the computer. A subsystem usually refers to hardware, but it may be used to describe software. or a complete access point or gateway. Atheros has reduced the bill of materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. over the company's previous generations of highly integrated chipsets as well as over competitors' chips. The third-generation chipsets are shipping with support for draft 8.2 of the 802.11g specification--the final 802.11g draft version. Atheros is first to market with an implementation of this final version. |
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