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April2006

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Jun 14, 2006, 3:09:02 PM6/14/06
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Can you tell me what IC company offer WiFi IP consumer product chip sets?
I am talking about chip set with ready applications for WiFi wireless camera
type of consumer electronics products.
Thank you.

John Navas

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Jun 14, 2006, 3:25:01 PM6/14/06
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:09:02 GMT, "April2006"
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>Can you tell me what IC company offer WiFi IP consumer product chip sets?
>I am talking about chip set with ready applications for WiFi wireless camera
>type of consumer electronics products.

Atheros
Broadcom
Conexant
Marvell
Philips
Texas Instruments
... lots more

Atheros and Marvell are arguably the leaders.

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Captain Dondo

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Jun 14, 2006, 3:30:19 PM6/14/06
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John Navas wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:09:02 GMT, "April2006"
> <Apri...@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in
> <i9Zjg.46113$4L1....@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>:
>
>
>>Can you tell me what IC company offer WiFi IP consumer product chip sets?
>>I am talking about chip set with ready applications for WiFi wireless camera
>>type of consumer electronics products.
>
>
> Atheros
> Broadcom
> Conexant
> Marvell
> Philips
> Texas Instruments
> ... lots more
>
> Atheros and Marvell are arguably the leaders.
>

Some provide data about their chipsets, others won't even publish a
pinout of their chips...

So do your research and make sure you can get tech data.

John Navas

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Jun 14, 2006, 4:07:59 PM6/14/06
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:30:19 -0700, Captain Dondo <y...@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com>
wrote in <1290os8...@corp.supernews.com>:

Assuming you qualify as an OEM, all chipset vendors provide specs
(including pinouts), and most provide evaluation kits with reference
designs.

Jeff Liebermann

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Jun 15, 2006, 1:06:36 AM6/15/06
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"April2006" <Apri...@nospam.yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>Can you tell me what IC company offer WiFi IP consumer product chip sets?
>I am talking about chip set with ready applications for WiFi wireless camera
>type of consumer electronics products.

ADMTek
Agere (Lucent)
Airgo
Aironet
Atheros
Atmel
Broadcom
InProComm
Intel (Centrino)
Intersil/Frisbee
IPW (Intel)
Javelin
Marvel
NWN (3com)
Orinoco
Philips (Centrino)
Prism (Harris/Intersil/etc)
Ralink
Realtek
Symbol
Texas Instruments
Zydas

Some drivel:
- Intel 2100 series Centrino uses wireless chips from Philips.
- IPW is Intel ProSet Wireless starting with 2200.
- Orinocco is actually a mess of manufacturers (in order) from:
Wavelan, Orinoco, Lucent, Agere, Avaya, and Proxim which use Prism
chipsets from Harris, Intersil, Conexant, Frisbee, and Javelin.
- Symbol uses various chip foundries.
- NWN is "No Wires Needed" in Netherlands. I think (not sure) they're
now part of Alvarion/Breezecom.
- Aironet is owned by Cisco.
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April2006

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Jun 15, 2006, 4:11:31 PM6/15/06
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Thank you very much, Jeff.

Can you please tell me where do you find these info and how do you do this
research?
What site do you use and what key words do you use?

Which are the popular chip set with wide consumer usage? On what consumer
product?
What the future growth of WiFi business? What is the good business
opportunities?
Thank you for your advise.

"Jeff Liebermann" <je...@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in message
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Jeff Liebermann

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Jun 16, 2006, 2:20:42 AM6/16/06
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"April2006" <Apri...@nospam.yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>Can you please tell me where do you find these info and how do you do this

>research?
>What site do you use and what key words do you use?

Sigh. I recycles my own posting to alt.internet.wireless a few years
ago.
| http://groups.google.com/group/alt.internet.wireless/browse_frm/thread/fc1728aa5485c9b7
I don't recall where I obtained the list. I might have scraped parts
from here:
| http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
There are also a few recent startups that I left out.

>Which are the popular chip set with wide consumer usage? On what consumer
>product?

Broadcom, Intel, and Prism own the bulk of the market. However, each
of these vendors have multiple chipset designed for specific target
applications. I can probably dig out sales figures, but I'm lazy
tonite.

>What the future growth of WiFi business?
>What is the good business
>opportunities?

I have some ideas in this area, but I'm certainly not going to give
them away for free. Sorry, but I have to pass.

April2006

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Jun 16, 2006, 12:51:53 PM6/16/06
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Can you tell us what IC chip set do Vonage and UTStarcom phone uses?


John Navas

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Jun 16, 2006, 1:07:42 PM6/16/06
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dOn Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:51:53 GMT, "April2006"
<Apri...@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in
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>Can you tell us what IC chip set do Vonage and UTStarcom phone uses?

As always, "Google is your friend:"
<http://www.google.com/search?q=vonage+chip-set>

Jeff Liebermann

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Jun 16, 2006, 1:21:14 PM6/16/06
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"April2006" <Apri...@nospam.yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>Can you tell us what IC chip set do Vonage and UTStarcom phone uses?

Not offhand. Both manufacturers have several models. I suggest you
obtain the model numbers and FCCID from these products and look them
up on the FCCID web site. There's quite a bit of internal information
there. You can usually identify the chipset from the internal photos.
www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/

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