Lenovo To Put Draft-802.11n In Notebooks

Written by Adam Gosling

Thursday, 09 November 2006

Broadcom has revealed that Lenovo is planning to use its Intensi-fi technology to deliver Draft 802.11n wireless networking in its new N100 widescreen notebook and select Lenovo 3000 notebooks. Broadcom says its Intensi-fi  along with the latest version of the software driver to be used with the Lenovo notebooks has achieved greater than 120Mbps throughput at a separation of one room (30 feet) in a qualified test house with "real-world" radio interference present. Taking the device to a point in the ‘test house' where no 802.11g connection could be established it was still able to achieve a throughput of more than 25Mbps. Importantly, the new Broadcom drivers were also shown to interoperate with products based on competing chipsets at speeds greater than 100Mb/s. The WLAN solution in the select Lenovo models is dual band, meaning it operates in either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequency band. This gives users the greatest flexibility in connecting to home or corporate networks. The cards are backward compatible to both 802.11a and to 802.11g, ensuring that they will interoperate with millions of installed access points. The Lenovo notebooks also use Broadcom's Bluetooth and Fast Ethernet networking technology. Related news items Leather-Bound ThinkPad Has Its Own Nerd -06/09/2007 Broadcom Enthusisam for 802.11n Wavers -06/09/2007 Linksys Releases Draft-N For SMBs -30/01/2007 Broadcom Could Benefit From Bluetooth Case -04/01/2007 Qualcomm Acquires Airgo -04/12/2006 Newer news items Draft N Inches Forward -14/03/2007 Agere Sells Wireless Patents -02/03/2007 Atheros Reaches 100 Million Chip Landmark -27/02/2007 Symbol Builds A Bridge Between RFID and WLAN -07/12/2006 WLAN Win For CSIRO -15/11/2006 Older news items NETGEAR First With Draft-n In ADSL2+ Modem -11/09/2006 Pre-N WLAN Sales Grind To A Halt -06/09/2006 aql Offers Brits Free WoVLAN From Mobiles -05/09/2006 New Atheros Silicon To Lower Pre-N Cost -30/08/2006 The End Of Open WLAN Standards -16/08/2006 Tag This Now: