Ralink's 802.11n WLAN Solution Now Supports Texas Instruments' Cable Modem Chipsets

(Product News, 22 May 2008)

Ralink's Wi-Fi 802.11n solution, the RT2880 iNIC, now supports Texas Instruments Inc.'s Puma 5 family of DOCSIS 3.0-based (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) cable modem chipsets. TI's Puma 5 is said to be the industry's first DOCSIS 3.0 compliant cable modem chipset providing a flexible and scalable platform that enables equipment manufacturers to meet the market demand for next-generation voice, data and video solutions combined with advanced networking capabilities.

The RT2880 iNIC is Ralink's first 802.11n enabled gateway platform for high speed DOCSIS 3.0 data and video applications. Cable equipment vendors deploying the new platform will be able to introduce cutting-edge wireless networking technology in the shortest time possible. Multi Service Operators (MSOs) and Cable operators will be able to fully leverage their access network capacity to deliver media-rich services and content to today's networked user.

The RT2880 iNIC is a System On Chip (SoC) that integrates Ralink's 802.11n 300Mbps 2T3R (two transmit, three receive) Baseband and Media Access Control (MAC) chips with a MIPS4K CPU. The RT2880 supports the latest 802.11i security features including Wi-Fi Protected Setup, 802.11e Quality of Service (QoS) features including WMM and WMM-PS for prioritization of voice, video and data. It also supports both the 5GHz and 2.4GHz bands when used with Ralink's transceivers RT2850 and RT2820, respectively.

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