Redpine Signals (
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The BEAM150 family comprises the RS9115 2.4 GHz chip with PCI (
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“Our BEAM150 products are the most highly integrated chips in the 802.11n space today,” Venkat Mattela, CEO of Redpine Signals said in a statement. “They incorporate Redpine's fourth-generation 802.11 technology, leveraging our vast WLAN patent-portfolio developed over the past eight years, and stand out in wireless performance in adverse environments."
The latest BEAM150 family is compatible with 40 MHz single-stream operation at a maximum data transfer rate of 150 Mbps and also incorporates the chief features of the amended 802.11n standard. The amendments made to the 802.11n standard include support for both 20 and 40 MHz bandwidths, STBC reception, short-guard interval, green-field preamble and lesser inter-frame spacing. These assist in improving throughput efficiency and deliver more than 100 Mbps of TCP data to the user.
Other features like a programmable MAC, baseband processor, analog front-end, dual-band RF transceiver, crystal oscillator, balun and a 2.4 GHz Power Amplifier, the suite also delivers over 17 dBm (
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High Throughput wireless node applications like HD video streaming, storage appliances, laptops and Mobile Internet Devices now have extensive use for the BEAN150 range of products. It is also suited for access point applications, 3G to Wi-Fi carrier gateways, home gateways and set-top boxes and for real-time client and AP applications in all Wi-Fi enabled wireless access systems. The BEAM150 offerings also provide support for the amended 802.11n standard, thereby resolving key challenges in upcoming applications in wireless access set-ups.
In addition, the BEAM150 offerings have high performance channel tracking which assists 64-QAM operation at 200 mph speed. This provides a valuable base for creating vehicular security systems, wireless toll-gate systems, and for data communications at high speeds.
Redpine offers a comprehensive set of solutions for both client and access point applications; they also provide support to multiple host platforms and operating systems including Linux, Windows XP and CE. Their solutions deliver form factor reference designs and software for manufacture testing and diagnostics; thus, effort and testing time is vastly reduced. The products will be available in early 2010, though sampling is available.
Carolyn John is a Contributor to TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please columnist page.Edited by
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