Atheros AR5001A Second-Generation 802.11a WLAN Solution

Enhancing the security, performance, range and robustness of 802.11a wireless networking, the Atheros AR5001A Second-Generation 802.11a Solution enables strong alternatives to conventional wire-line LANs. Building upon the inherently high quality of 802.11a operation in the interference-free 5-GHz band, the Second-Generation 802.11a Solution opens the way for wide-scale deployment of wireless networks.

The AR5001A Second-Generation 802.11a Solution comprises two low-power chips, each of which rely exclusively on standard-process CMOS. As a result, the chip set delivers reliable, cost-effective connectivity.

Atheros second-generation 802.11a technology includes the second-generation implementation of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme with 15 advances in OFDM radio design. As the modulation scheme for both 802.11a and the draft 802.11g standards, OFDM is key to high-performance wireless networking.