Broadcom Introduces Industry's Most Advanced Solution for Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi® Coexistence

  InConcert Technology Optimizes Sharing of the 2.4GHz Radio Frequency Band

    Unique Approach Added to All AirForce™ and Blutonium™ Solutions

LAS VEGAS, COMDEX, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of silicon solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced InConcert™, a new technology designed to allow wireless devices to collaboratively co-exist within the same radio frequency. InConcert technology provides products enabled with Broadcom® Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi® chips the ability to intelligently share the 2.4 GHz frequency range, synchronizing transmissions to maximize throughput and performance for both standards. InConcert will begin shipping in Broadcom's Bluetooth and wireless LAN products starting early next year and is being demonstrated at the COMDEX trade show.

"The convenience and freedom enabled by wireless communications technologies are changing the way we access networks and use electronic devices in the enterprise, the home and on the road," said Jeff Abramowitz, Sr. Director of Marketing for Broadcom's Wireless LAN products. "Wi-Fi and Bluetooth have independently become mainstream technologies and Broadcom's InConcert technology optimizes how they work together in the same devices. This is an essential feature as multiple wireless technologies converge into individual products like PCs, PDAs or mobile phones."

InConcert Technology is a system solution that leverages hardware built into Broadcom's Bluetooth and Wi-Fi solutions. The software required to enable InConcert Technology resides within Broadcom's Blutonium® Bluetooth system firmware and OneDriver™ unified wireless LAN driver. Any device that uses both Bluetooth and wireless LAN chips enabled with InConcert will automatically and intelligently synchronize its wireless transmissions to avoid interference. The technology is critical for devices such as PCs, handheld computers and smart phones that integrate both technologies to maximize mobility and convenience.

"InConcert Technology is Broadcom's latest innovation in response to a customer need. We've added the industry's most advanced solution for collaborative coexistence to our best-of-breed Bluetooth and wireless LAN solutions," said Scott Bibaud, Director of Bluetooth Marketing at Broadcom. "Using prioritized coordination, InConcert technology elegantly addresses the coexistence problem for customers looking to build multi-radio technology devices."

2.4 GHz Increasingly Popular for Wireless Communications

The 2.4 GHz radio frequency band is used for a number of consumer and enterprise applications, including those that are equipped for Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g wireless networking. In addition, these channels are also used for such devices as wireless video cameras and cordless phones. Adaptive frequency hopping (AFH), a Bluetooth 1.2 feature that Broadcom has already introduced in its products, can be used to mitigate radio interference in this common frequency, minimizing the possibility of performance degradation. For products like laptops or PDAs that incorporate both Bluetooth and wireless LAN technology, however, AFH is not sufficient to fully prevent interference.

InConcert technology alleviates this problem by having Broadcom Bluetooth and wireless LAN products work together to establish and adhere to a digital transmission synchronization scheme, ensuring that radio transmissions among products enabled with InConcert avoid collisions and find the clearest channels and time slots for operation. In network environments with Broadcom- enabled wireless products, all constituent devices can work together to facilitate maximum wireless performance.

Broadcom Uniquely Situated to Solve Co-Existence Problem

With the industry's broadest product lines for Bluetooth and wireless LAN, as well as cellular solutions, Broadcom is uniquely suited to address radio interference issues between these technologies. Broadcom's Blutonium line of Bluetooth products includes the BCM2040, currently the only available system- on-a-chip solution for wireless keyboards and mice, the BCM2002 radio-only device, and single-chip integrated baseband and radio solutions, such as the BCM2040, BCM2035 and BCM2033. The BCM2035, BCM2033 and BCM2002 are currently in high volume production with several major cellular phone and other product manufacturers.

Broadcom's high performance WLAN product line, AirForce™, features the greatest breadth and depth in the industry. In addition to transceivers that provide IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g and dual-band 802.11a/g solutions, Broadcom integrates wireless network processors, communications technologies and OneDriver software solutions into reference designs that speed customer time to market. Broadcom recently expanded its wireless family to include AirForce One™, the world's first single-chip wireless LAN solution that enables Wi- Fi connectivity in pocket-sized mobile devices.

All the wireless chips in Broadcom's Bluetooth and Wi-Fi product lines enjoy unique performance advantages such as improve throughput and range via Broadcom's SmartRadio™ technology. In addition to advanced signal processing techniques, the all-CMOS solutions are capable of self-calibrating based on usage temperature and other environmental conditions, reconfiguring constantly for optimum performance. Competing radios are statically calibrated at the point of manufacture and are unable to adapt to changing environmental influences.

InConcert technology will begin appearing in Broadcom's Bluetooth and wireless LAN products in early 2004 with these products being fully compatible with previous generation Broadcom wireless chips.

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete system-on-a- chip solutions and related hardware and software applications for every major broadband communications market. Broadcom's diverse product portfolio includes solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; cable and DSL modems and residential gateways; high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network processors; and SystemI/O™ server solutions. These technologies and products support Broadcom's core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com .

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