Broadcom announced a new single-chip wireless LAN solution that it describes as the smallest and most cost-effective IEEE 802.11g solution on the market. The AirForce One 54g solution incorporates a high-performance 2.4 GHz radio, 802.11a/g baseband processor, medium access controller (MAC) and other radio components, reducing the size of typical Wi-Fi modules by 72%.
The new chip features built-in interfaces to GPRS, GSM and Bluetooth, which enables it to be used multi-band (WAN/PAN) devices such as smart phones,http://broadcom.com
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You just read about Broadcom. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
BroadLight built GPON processors and broadband access silicon. What became of it?
BroadLight brought GPON processors and broadband access silicon to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Broadcom for US$230M. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Broadcom today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about Wi-Fi. Here is what it replaced:
Metricom Ricochet served 1994–2001. What ultimately replaced it?
Metricom Ricochet a mesh of pager-sized shoulder radios talking to pole-top microcell repeaters, delivering ~28-128 kbit/s wireless internet across a handful of cities. Its job passed to Wi-Fi — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
