Sunday, December 14, 2003

CommsDesign - The technology of the year

In this article Craig J. Mathias of EE Times calls MIMO the technology of the year. He also specifically mentions Airgo.
I predict the 802.11n WLAN standard will include MIMO as a key component. Granted, 802.11n is at least 18 months away, but there's just no other practical way to push the performance envelope at this point. In fact, Airgo Networks is now shipping MIMO-based WLAN products with 108-Mbit/second single-channel throughput. And this is a relatively simple implementation. Installation in a notebook would allow even more antennas, resulting in even more throughput. And, of course, one can trade off throughput for more range or greater reliability.

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