20 January 2006

Marvell Ship IEEE 802.11n Compliant WiFi Solution

Marvell is shipping a high performance WiFi solution, compliant with the IEEE 802.11n standard.

The Marvell 88W836X family, first announced in October 2005, complies 100% with the IEEE 802.11n draft specification. The acceptance of this draft specification enables Marvell's key customers, who have been working with Marvell 88W836X chipsets for several to launch products.

Marvell has customers shipping game devices, cellular handsets, digital cameras, MP3 players, VoIP handsets and other consumer devices.

"Marvell is thrilled that this specification enables our customers to be the first to ship IEEE 802.11n draft compliant WLAN products to the market, said Weili Dai, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Communications and Consumer Business Group. "We thank the IEEE Task Group "N" for their outstanding work and effort in converging on a draft specification for the IEEE 802.11n standard."

The 88W836x family incorporates Marvell's proprietary Feroceon ARM CPU architecture to minimise power usage and TCP/IP termination for embedded client devices.

Marvell is a founding member of the Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC). Earlier this week the The IEEE Task Group “N” voted to confirm the proposal for the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard. Submitted by the Joint Proposal team, this specification was developed by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC) and included several elements developed within the Joint Proposal team.

The proposed IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi standard will enable high-performance, next-generation wireless local area networking (WLAN) products. The draft supports speeds of up to 600 Mbps – a significant leap over today’s Wi-Fi networks – and will enable wireless systems to deliver greater range. This will allow wireless products across multiple market segments to support advanced multimedia applications..