Wireless LAN specialist Agere picked opening day at Comdex to announce prototype wireless LAN chips capable of transmitting data at 162Mbps in the 5GHz band occupied by emerging 802.11a kit.
That’s three times faster than the theoretical maximum throughput of current 802.11a equipment (54Mbps) or almost 15 times the theoretical top speed of existing 802.11b kit (11Mbps).
According to Agere, the high-speed technology can be used to support high-definition video in future 802.11-based home entertainment and enterprise desktop PC applications. The company hopes to introduce the technology in products by late 2004.
Agere’s demonstration platform combines Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) - two of the most promising technologies to increase data rates in the currently available wireless LAN spectrum….
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