Thursday, May 24, 2007

802.11n Overview

http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/Home/Products.html

The Ralink 802.11n Chipset family provides solutions forPCI(RT2860), PCIe(RT2890) and USB(RT2870) interfaces with both 2.4 and 2.4/5GHzsuppport. Each chipset consists of two highly integrated ICs(RFIC and BB/MAC IC) that fully comply with current draftIEEE 802.11n and IEEE 802.11a/b/g standards.Ralink feature-rich chipsets embody 2 transmitter 3 receiver(2T3R) achitecture to ensure reliable, cost-eective wirelessconnectivity at high throughput over an extended range.Optimized RF architecture and baseband algorithms providesuperb performance with low-power consumption. IntelligentMAC design deploys a highly ecient DMA engine andhardware data processing accelerators without overloadingthe host procesor.All chipsets support standards-based security, quality ofservice and international regulatory, giving end users thegreatest performance anytime, anywhere.