Ralink Technology's Wireless LAN Products Receives Cisco Compatible Extension V3 (CCXv3) Certification.CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Ralink Technology, a leading developer of 802.11x WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network chipsets, today announced that its products have received Cisco Compatible Extension V3 (CCXv3) certification from Cisco. The CCXv3 program is designed to test interoperability with Cisco Aironet[R] Wireless LAN 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 infrastructure and other "Cisco Compatible" products. By achieving Cisco Compatibility, the Ralink design reassures enterprise customer interoperability and greater flexibility for wireless LAN installation and enhanced network security and management controls through the Cisco Wireless Security Suite. To receive the CCXv3 certification, Ralink developers planned, prepared and designed drivers based on CCXv3 Design and Test specifications from Cisco. Then, Ralink submitted the Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) A Microsoft facility that provides testing services for hardware and drivers for compliance with its operating systems. WHQL administers various logos that compliant vendors may reprint on their packages. ) and Wi-Fi certified See Wi-Fi Alliance. products to Cisco's authorized independent testing center for testing using Cisco's test plan rev 3.66. Finally, the independent testing center sent Cisco a copy of the executed test plan and Cisco notified Ralink of the acceptance and certification. "We are pleased to work with Cisco to improve the user experience and transparency of wireless connections for the enterprise market," said Rick Jeng, Executive Vice President of Ralink Technology. "By supporting Cisco Compatible Extension V3, Ralink enables hardware partners to serve the enterprise market with 802.11a/g products that support the latest industry standards and Cisco innovations." The RT5201 Ralink WLAN chipset A group of chips designed to work as a unit to perform a function. For example, a modem chipset contains all the primary circuits for transmitting and receiving. A PC chipset provides the electronic interfaces between all subsystems (see PC chipset for illustration). will now bear the "Cisco Compatible" brand which helps ensure that notebook PCs and other wireless devices based on Ralink Technology's support advanced features that Cisco has incorporated into the Cisco Aironet[R] Series of Access Point and other Wireless LAN infrastructure. For more information about Ralink's WLAN chipsets, please visit: http://www.ralinktech.com About Ralink Technology Ralink Technology Corporation is a leading innovator and developer of wireless LAN chipset solutions. Ralink 802.11x chipsets are recognized for superior throughput, extended range, low-power consumption and consistent reliability demanded by Wi-Fi, mobile and embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. . These feature-rich chipsets have a high level of chip integration for client and AP solutions for CB, miniPCI, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and 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. interfaces, enabling customers to build smaller and more sophisticated mobile wireless products cost-effectively. Ralink's patented MIMObility[TM] technology extends Wi-Fi applications from traditional PC networking to a range of digital multimedia and handheld devices including cell phones, PDAs, cameras, print servers, HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates and video game players. Ralink customers can look forward to continuous improvements in speed, bandwidth and reliability with emerging 802.11n solutions for next-generation high-performance Wi-Fi. Ralink Technology was founded in 2001 with headquarters in Hsin-chu, Taiwan and an R&D center in Cupertino, California. For more information, visit Ralink at www.ralinktech.com |
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