Wireless CPE Designs for Voice, Video and Data

(Product News, 13 Jul 2005)

Infineon Technologies has released WildPass, the dual-band 802.11 a/g wireless network processor system-on-chip (SoC) solution. Featuring multiple on-chip interfaces including the USB 2.0 and Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), WildPass can be integrated into a variety of network applications such as VoIP access points, routers and gateways as well as media and print servers. It supports simultaneous Triple Play of voice, video and data for both LAN and WAN connections. The dual-band and WPA2 (802.11i) security functionality of WildPass and its on-board WLAN transceiver enable it to communicate with any existing WLAN solution in the market.

The Infineon WildPass has been selected by Astor Technology for their Network Attached Storage (NAS) family dubbed Picasso. Astor’s NAS Picasso, uses the IDE interface of WildPass for an internal hard-drive and the USB2.0 host interface to provide support for additional external hard-drives in the LAN network.

WildPass offers also PCM and SPI for Voice over IP applications; MII for connecting to broadband uplink technologies (such as xDSL, fiber or cable-modem) and SDRAM and Flash for external memory devices. Its hardware NAT (Network Address Translation) engine allows numerous PCs or internet enabled devices (video-on-demand media servers, gaming consoles, Personal Media Gateways, etc.) in a network to access the internet at the same time.