Atheros Encores New 802.11n Single-Chip to Deliver Highest Performance Wi-Fi in Multimedia Home Gateways

Atheros Encores New 802.11n Single-Chip to Deliver Highest Performance Wi-Fi in Multimedia Home Gateways

Atheros Communications, Inc. has announced two single-chip 802.11n solutions developed expressly for the carrier gateway market. The new dual-band, 2.4GHz/5GHz, AR9220 and single-band, 2.4GHz AR9223 PCI designs join the comprehensive Atheros XSPAN™ family, the world’s most widely adopted draft 802.11n Wi-Fi solutions.

New-Generation XSPAN Delivers 11n Performance at Price Points To Enable Broad Deployment of Triple-Play Gateways

These latest 802.11n designs provide reliable, market-proven performance at price points that allow carriers to broadly deploy home gateways capable of supporting data, voice and video on a single wireless network. They are the second implementation of Atheros’ new single-chip 11n design which follows last month’s introduction of the company’s half-mini card for PCI Express (PCIe), the world’s most integrated, compact 802.11n solution for PCs.

The new, cost-effective AR9220 and AR9223 11n PCI designs will bring the highest-performance WLAN technology to a broader base of subscribers in significantly more robust gateway products. Routers based on these new XSPAN PCI solutions will deliver 10 times the throughput and nearly twice the range of legacy 802.11g and 802.11a/g networks, resulting in optimal coverage throughout the home.