Broadcom’s New Single-Chip 54g™ Solution Offers Industry-Leading IEEE 802.11g Performance, Range, Ease-of-Use and Security

Broadcom's New Single-Chip 54g™ Solution Offers Industry-Leading IEEE 802.11g Performance, Range, Ease-of-Use and Security

Broadcom Corporation has announced a new single-chip 54g wireless local area networking solution that delivers industry-leading range, configuration and security features. The AirForce One 54g transceiver is the smallest and most cost-effective IEEE 802.11g solution on the market, facilitating more opportunities to integrate the popular 54 Mbps wireless technology into notebook and handheld computers, and consumer electronic devices.

Highly Integrated Client and Router Products Enable First Three Chip End-to-End Networking Solution AirForce One 54g Solution Incorporates New IEEE 802.11i Security Standard

The Broadcom® BCM4318 integrates the functionality of multiple Wi-Fi® chips onto a single silicon die to reduce the size, cost and power consumption of wireless LAN devices, and  incorporates a high-performance 2.4 GHz radio, 802.11a/g baseband processor, medium access controller (MAC) and other radio components. This high level of chip integration not only reduces the size of a traditional Wi-Fi module by 72 percent, but also reduces the number of components required for wireless equipment by 45 percent over existing solutions, thereby lowering the cost of consumer and small business network equipment.