Ralink Technology, Corp. Announces Industry's Longest Range Draft-802.11n Wi-Fi Chipset.* Chipset Eliminates Reception Shadows in Homes, Businesses and Cities * Patented Antenna Design Enables Industry's Smallest USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 2.0 Footprint * Ralink Technology Announces 45 Million Wi-Fi LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Chipsets Shipped CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Ralink Technology, Corp., which has shipped 45 million WiFi chipsets, today announced the industry's longest range Wi-Fi chipset for the design of draft-802.11n wireless local-area-network products. The RT2800 chipset doubles the range of high-performance wireless systems and thereby eliminates reception shadows in homes, offices and city-wide networks. The long-range reception is made possible by patented, low-noise circuitry that pinpoints and recovers the high-speed 802.11n streams of data. The new chipset can be used to design routers for homes, businesses and city-wide networks. It can also be used in the design of desktop computers, laptops, printers, networks storage systems, media servers, projectors, televisions set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. , etc. The 802.11n standard offers up to six times the performance of the 802.11g Wi-Fi standard that is widely used today. The 802.11n data throughput is greater than 180 Mbps with actual connection speeds of 300 Mbps to accommodate protocol overhead. The 802.11n standard is currently in a draft status, however designs are underway and end-user products are now entering the market in anticipation of final approval. The Ralink chipset is designed so that changes to the draft-802.11n can be installed into end-user products via a software upgrade. The RT2800 chipset supports industry standard interfaces including PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , MiniPCI, CardBus, USB 2.0, PCIe and MiniCard. The chipset is fully backward compatible Refers to hardware or software that is compatible with earlier versions of the product. Also called "downward compatible." Contrast with forward compatible. backward compatible - backward compatibility with the existing industry wireless standards such as 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g The USB 2.0 version of the Ralink chipset has a patented antenna which is an industry first because it is contained inside a small housing that enables the entire draft-802.11n design to fit inside the small footprint of a USB package. The USB 2.0 chipset is also the first draft-802.11n solution to offer its software driver in optional onboard Refers to a chip or other hardware component that is directly attached to the printed circuit board (motherboard). Contrast with offboard. See inboard. flash memory instead of on a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). disk. This gives the end-use a true plug-and-play product because the driver is uploaded into the computer through the USB connector. Ralink Technology Corp. was founded in January 2001 to develop and market wireless Local Area Network chipset solutions. The company has shipped 45 million Wi-Fi chipsets since 2003. Ralink's chipsets are recognized for superior throughput, extended range, low-power and consistent reliability. The company has its headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan and an office in Cupertino, United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . www.ralinktech.com |
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