Envera 802.11b chipset offerings

In July of 2002 Envera Corporation introduced its WiND™ wireless chipset design, intended to operate in the 5GHz band, and also offer compatibility with 2.4GHz, (Wi-Fi) wireless LAN devices, compliant with the IEEE 802.11b standard .

The WiND™ dual mode IEEE 802.11a+b chipset contains two chips, an integrated baseband chip with built-in MAC and dual IEEE 802.11a+b modem functionality, and a low cost RF chip with a highly integrated dual band 2.4 and 5GHz implementation.

The chipsets are scheduled to begin sampling in 4Q2002, with a targe price of under $30 in quantities of 100K units and more. However, single mode 5GHz chipsets should be available sooner and be accompanied by reference designs for dual mode wireless LAN products or customers with aggressive devlopment schedules.

The dual-mode IEEE 802.11a+b integrated WiND™chipset design provides an upgrade path from 2.4GHz wireless networking into the 5GHz band. The WiND™ chipset design will include enhanced Media Access Control (MAC) features providing

• Enhanced security
• Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) Transmit Power Control (TPC)
  (for worldwide radio regulation conformance and installation)
• QoS to facilitate streaming multimedia requirements
• IEEE 802.11i-compatible built-in enhanced security features
  • including the enhanced 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption
  • strong authentication and key exchange mechanisms
• IEEE 802.11h compatible DFS-TPC
  • ensures that installation is ''out-of-the-box'' when automated frequency band conformance and tuning are enabled via this feature.
  • ensures that a user's wireless modem will work anywhere in the world
  • dual-mode compatibility, effectively creates transparent, worldwide interoperability.
  • IEEE 802.11e compatible QoS, (certain data streams are prioritized), a feature useful to Home Networking users with demand for quality streaming video and other multimedia.

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