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Wi-Fi Alliance Certifies Intensi-fi Product Interoperability and Selects Broadcom® Solutions for 802.11n Draft 2.0 Test Bed Broadcom Delivers Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ 802.11n Draft 2.0 Drivers to Partners
IRVINE, Calif., May 16, 2007 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its Intensi-fi™ router and client reference designs are among the first products to achieve Wi-Fi® certification for 802.11n draft 2.0. By achieving Wi-Fi certification, Broadcom's router and client reference designs have been proven to work seamlessly with all other Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ 802.11n products. The Wi-Fi Alliance also selected Broadcom's dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) router and client reference designs (the BCM94705 and BCM94321MC) to be part of its 802.11n test environment for testing interoperability and certifying other Wi- Fi products.
Driven by the Wi-Fi Alliance, the Wi-Fi certification program will ensure that wireless LAN products from different manufacturers work seamlessly with each other. The Alliance will certify products based upon the IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 specification, which provides faster, more reliable connections than previous standards. The Broadcom® Intensi-fi platform has emerged as the industry's premier 802.11n technology, delivering superior performance at a lower cost while enabling whole-home distribution of multimedia content.
"Wi-Fi certification is the most significant landmark in the transition to 802.11n thus far," said Kevin Mukai, Senior Product Line Manager for Broadcom's WLAN line of business. "Most Wi-Fi users want to know that their wireless products will work together. Wi-Fi certification provides a measure of confidence, giving consumers and businesses additional peace of mind as they upgrade their wireless networks to get additional speed and reliability, while ensuring compatibility with existing products."
Broadcom's Intensi-fi chipsets are the leading 802.11n solutions shipping in PCs, routers, DSL gateways and video/media adapters. According to The NPD Group's retail tracking service, Broadcom-based products from Linksys, NETGEAR, Buffalo and Asustek represent more than half of the 802.11n equipment sold in the U.S from April 2006 through March 2007. Broadcom's 802.11n technology is also included in wireless-enabled notebooks from Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo.
Since introducing the industry's first 802.11n solutions, Broadcom has maintained compatibility with industry specifications by providing OEMs with regular firmware upgrades throughout the standards process. At present, Broadcom has made Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 802.11n draft 2.0 code available to its partners, enabling them to quickly achieve Wi-Fi certification for their products. Wi-Fi equipment vendors can also provide their customers with driver updates that ensure compatibility between existing 802.11n products and new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED products.
"We congratulate Broadcom on being selected for the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 802.11n draft 2.0 test bed," said Wi-Fi Alliance managing director Frank Hanzlik. "Broadcom's participation in the development of this program has been instrumental in the achieving industry-wide certification for next generation Wi-Fi products."
Broadcom's Wireless Ecosystem
As consumers and businesses increasingly rely on wireless devices for connectivity, Broadcom delivers the technologies that make those connections fast, reliable and secure. Broadcom offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® products, as well as products that combine multiple wireless solutions. This unmatched portfolio provides superior performance across a full range of wireless networking subsystems -- from 802.11n home networking equipment, to PCs and consumer electronics with 802.11g, to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones and peripherals. As the variety of wireless products explodes, Broadcom is keeping pace by developing smaller and more power efficient client solutions that connect to an increasingly powerful infrastructure.
Broadcom's wireless solutions combine highly integrated silicon, feature-rich software and highly integrated boards to simplify system design, reduce manufacturing costs and accelerate time-to-market for new products. Broadcom's wireless technologies are an obvious choice for the industry's most advanced PCs, networking equipment, mobile phones, headsets, peripherals, and consumer electronics devices.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.
Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2006 revenue of $3.67 billion, and holds over 2,000 U.S. and 800 foreign patents, more than 6,000 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video and data.
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at www.broadcom.com.
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