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Topic: R&D, Standards and Certifications

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Proxim Announces First Enterprise Class 802.11g Wireless Solution to Achieve Wi-Fi Alliance Certification

ORiNOCO 802.11g Products Win ?Best of Show? Award for Wireless Enterprise at 802.11 Planet Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 8, 2003 - Proxim Corporation (Nasdaq: PROX), a global leader in wireless networking equipment for Wi-Fi and wide area networks, today announced that the enterprise class ORiNOCO AP-600g access point was among the first IEEE 802.11g products to be certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA). The certification demonstrates that this product is fully interoperable with access points and client devices from other vendors.

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Wi-Fi Alliance Awards 54g(TM) Product the Right to Bear Interoperability Logo, Selects Broadcom Solutions for 802.11g Test Bed

IRVINE, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM) , the leading provider of silicon solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced that its 54g(TM) access point reference design is among the first products to achieve Wi-Fi(R) certification for 802.11g.

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D-Link's Upcoming Firmware Provides 802.11g Standard Interoperability For All Existing D-Link 802.11G Draft-Compliant Wireless Products.

Irvine, CA, June 13, 2003 ? D-Link, a worldwide leader in manufacturing of networking, broadband and digital electronic technologies, today announced that it will provide a simple, free firmware upgrade for its award-winning AirPlus Xtreme G and AirXpert A/G/B wireless networking product lines to bring them into full compliance with the newly finalized IEEE 802.11g standard.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. ? June 12, 2003 ? NETGEAR, Inc., a worldwide provider of technologically advanced networking products, today announced it will soon be releasing a free, downloadable firmware upgrade for its existing line of wireless networking products based upon the IEEE 802.11g-draft specification. The firmware will incorporate the final changes of the 802.11g specification ratified today by the IEEE task force.

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DALLAS (June 12, 2003) - Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced that it has begun providing its TNETW1130 802.11g solution to customers now that the IEEE 802.11g standard has been approved by the IEEE Standards Board. Current TI customers, SMC and U.S. Robotics, and new customers, NETGEAR, Inc, Samsung, and Sitecom, will be using TI WLAN technology for their 802.11g and multi-mode Wi-Fi products. To provide customers fast time to market of new 802.11g products, TI is developing complete system designs with several original design manufacturers (ODMs) including Alpha Networks, Inc., Amit, AboCom Systems, Inc., ASUSTeK, Global Sun Tech, Mototech, SerComm and Z-Com.

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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 12 June 2003 IEEE 802.11b?, the most widely used wireless local area network (WLAN) technology, has gotten a long-awaited increase in speed through a new amendment to the IEEE 802.11 ? standard ratified by the Standards Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The amendment, IEEE 802.11g?, raises the data rate of IEEE 802.11b networks to 54 Mbps (megabits per second) from 11 Mbps.

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By Darrell Dunn
From: cmpnetasia

Yet another wireless connectivity standard will claim the spotlight next week, as the ZigBee Alliance conducts its member meeting at an open house in Berlin, and IC suppliers like Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) demonstrate compliance with the recently passed 802.15.4 standard.

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From maccentral

By Jim Dalrymple jdalrymple@maccentral.com


802.11g transfer rate controversy meaningless, says Apple

Recent published reports that the final standard for 802.11g will be throttled down to 20Mbit/sec aren't an indication of any actual change to the spec, according to Apple's Vice President of Software, Mike Bell.

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From Infoworld
By Ephraim Schwartz
Scott Tyler Shafer

With the Federal Communications Commission proposing to nearly double 802.11a?s available bandwidth, Wi-Fi is on course to become as available as the air it travels through.

Posted last week, the FCC proposal would add 80 percent (255MHz) to the 300MHz of spectrum currently available in the 5GHz band. The additional spectrum would reside in the middle band, from 5.470GHz to 5.725GHz.

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By Vikki Lipset
From internetnews

The group behind the development of the 802.11 standard for wireless networking has agreed on a final draft for the 802.11g specification, setting the stage for official standards approval in June.

At a meeting of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) last week in Dallas, the 802.11g Task Group unanimously approved version 8.2 of the draft standard. The IEEE 802.11 Working Group also approved the draft by a vote of 102-0-2, and, barring any procedural snags, the draft is expected to be ratified by the IEEE Standards Board on June 12.

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