TDK Develops Next-Generation Wireless LAN Products Compatible with IEEE 802.11a Standards.Business/Technology Editors LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 TDK TDK Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Council) TDK The Dark Knights (gaming clan) TDK Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd. announced today at the NetWorld + Interop 2001 convention that it has developed CardBus wireless LAN products compatible with IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11a standards using the 5-GHz bandwidth. The successful development project was conducted jointly with Atheros Communications Inc., a U.S. company that is attracting considerable attention for its development of LSIs for wireless LAN use. TDK IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN products have maximum transmission speeds of 54 Mbps. This ultra-wide bandwidth will help empower next-generation rich media applications, such as wireless video on-demand, video email, and simultaneous multi-stream video distribution. TDK's wireless LAN products incorporate the company's high-frequency circuit design technologies, antenna technologies, and high-density mounting technologies as well as Atheros Communications' high-speed communications technologies. TDK will market a full line of high-speed wireless LAN solutions including PC CardBus, Mini PCI and access point products. TDK is demonstrating its new wireless LAN products at NetWorld + Interop 2001 in Las Vegas, which starts today. The Evolution of IEEE 802.11a Network environments utilizing wireless LAN products began coming into widespread use in 2000. Most of these products comply with the IEEE 802.11b standards, which use the 2.4-GHz bandwidth. The 2.4-GHz bandwidth, however, is also used by other wireless communications formats, so signal interference is a potential problem. In addition, its maximum transmission speed is limited to 11 Mbps, which is not sufficient for distributing multiple video streams simultaneously. The new 802.11a standard eliminates both these issues, offering the potential for interference-free transmission with unprecedented speed. About Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros Communications is a fabless company that was established in 1998 by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. and high-frequency signal processing circuit and network engineers for the purpose of developing wireless networking LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. . The company's head office is located in Sunnyvale, California. Atheros Communications' two-CMOS chipset, developed for 5 GHz wireless LAN, is attracting attention in the industry. About TDK TDK Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TDK) is a leading global electronics company based in Japan. It was established in 1935, and today offers a broad range of advanced mobile connectivity solutions, ferrite fer·rite n. 1. Any of a group of nonmetallic, ceramiclike, usually ferromagnetic compounds of ferric oxide with other oxides, especially such a compound characterized by extremely high electrical resistivity and used in computer memory materials, electronic components and ICs, magnetic heads for HDD (Hard Disk Drive) See hard disk and HDD caddy. HDD - hard disk drive , digital recording hardware and advanced digital recording Advanced Digital Recording (ADR) is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by OnStream from 1998 to 2003. Since the demise of OnStream, the format has been orphaned. ADR is an 8-track, linear tape format. Generations Generation ADR 30 ADR 50 ADR 2.60 ADR 2. media. Net sales in FY2000 were US$6.3 billion. For more information about TDK, please visit www.tdk.com or www.tdk.co.jp. |
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