Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Intersil | Subject: Prism Indigo 5GHz chipset
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 July 2001
The future's Indigo for 5GHz wireless
LANs
Intersil has announced the industry's first complete chipset to deliver 54Mbit/s datarates for higher speed, broadband wireless connectivity for business and home networking.
Intersil has announced the industry's first complete chipset to deliver 54Mbit/s datarates for higher speed, broadband wireless connectivity for business and home networking Intersil expects its new Prism Indigo 5GHz chipset, designed to conform to the latest IEEE 802.11a standard for 54Mbit/s operation at 5GHz, to significantly boost growth in the networking market by complementing existing 2.4GHz WLAN systems and opening up many new applications including multimedia and video conferencing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Prism Indigo can also operate in parallel with existing 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b-based WLANs with no interference, eg to boost network performance.
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