Intensi-fi®

Intensi-fi® is Broadcom's implementation of the 802.11n draft specification and the industry's first draft-802.11n solutions. Intensi-fi® technology delivers superior performance and robust wireless connectivity throughout a home or office, enabling next-generation Wi-Fi devices to support voice, video and data applications. Intensi-fi® chipsets are also designed to be compatible with existing 802.11a/b/g products.

Designed to enable HD video, voice and music transfer between devices, Intensi-fi® will extend beyond traditional PCs, notebooks and network gear into consumer electronics, handhelds, printers, digital cameras, digital video recorders, cable set top boxes, game consoles, and audio equipment.

Now available, the first Intensi-fi® chipset comprises the following solutions:

  • BCM4321 - The world's first draft-802.11n media access controller (MAC) and baseband processor, providing data rates of over 300 Mbps and interfacing to PCI, Cardbus and PCI-Express® hosts.
  • BCM2055 - Broadcom's fifth-generation 802.11 radio, which integrates multiple 2.4 and 5 GHz radios to support simultaneous spatial streams for draft 802.11n products with 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4 antenna configurations. The BCM2055 is the best-performing 802.11 radio, featuring smaller die size, lower power consumption, and lower phase noise and error vector magnitude (EVM) than competing products.

Broadcom also offers two network processors that allow customers to optimize cost versus performance for wireless router designs:

  • BCM4704 - Broadcom's proven wireless network processor, which provides advanced routing/bridging capabilities and is tuned to meet the performance targets of draft-802.11n chipsets for router and gateway designs.
  • BCM4705 - Broadcom's sixth-generation wireless network processor, which supports simultaneous operation of 2.4 and 5 GHz radios and integrates a Gigabit Ethernet MAC to enable greater than 100 Mbps throughput between draft 802.11n and Ethernet networks.

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