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A new chip from Broadcom (the StrataXGS III ), could cause a major shift in the enterprise wireless LAN industry, enabling vendors to build much more wireless functionality into wired networking products, says Unstrung’s Dan Jones.
Broadcom says the StrataXGS III architecture will enable seamless integration of a unified wireless and wired infrastructure.
Analysts say that products of this kind will take the focus off wireless LAN switching software and force both established and startup vendors to further develop management software for 802.11 networks.
Unstrung says;
The idea that wireless LAN switching capabilities could be handled at the wired switch has been a popular theme among established networking vendors competing with startups in the 802.11 market.But there has not been much evidence that anything like that was actually happening…until now.
Atheros is taking a completely different route with a “beamforming” MIMO chipset, the AR5005VL.
According to Unstrung’s Insider, street price for wireless LAN switch systems from Aruba, Cisco, Symbol, and Trapeze range between $600 and $800 per access point deployed.
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