SMC chooses TI’s 802.11b/g design

Posted by David Sifry on June 20, 2002 at 10:42 pm

Glenn Fleishman reports on SMC‘s choice to use TI’s ACX100 chips in their next generation access point, which
will deliver 22Mbps “turbo” mode for SMC client cards, and standard
802.11b for all other cards. They also claim a 30 percent increase in
range because of the ACX100. Since 802.11g isn’t even ratified yet, and
since TI and Intersil are building competing implementations that are
not compatable, this should be seen as a shot across the bow at
Intersil, though it remains to be seen where the majority of the market
will end up with regards to the 802.11g standard.