Broadcom Announces New Breed of World’s First & Fastest 5G WiFi Chips for Wireless Web Surfing at 1.3 GB/sec!

Wireless web surfing is mostly concerned with speed and reliability. Now Broadcom announces a new breed of 5G WiFi chips for web surfing at world’s fastest amazing speed of 1.3 GB/sec that is several times faster than the chips currently being used in existing network. The devices equipped with these chips would come into market by the Q2 of this year.

Broadcom along with many and chip and wireless product companies are supporting the new technology, which will be demonstrated CES 2012, next week in Las Vegas.

Broadcom’s fastest 5G WiFi chips would be really a gift for the consumers since most of them like to watch videos or play games on variety of their devices and such a fantastic and remarkably fastest networking will add more sugar to their gaming thrills, especially multiplayer gaming will get the maximum edge.

5G WiFi is also a very attractive name for the mobilephone users and it replicates the cleverness of the Broadcom in marketing, but it is accurate enough too to deliver amazingly fastest wireless speed, as told said Michael Hurlston, SVP of the mobile and at Broadcom, a chip giant based in Irvine, Calif. The new technology is based on a 802.11ac engineering protocol, or the 5th generation of WiFi standards.

In that sense, Broadcom can position WiFi as faster than 4G, which the cellular phone companies are rolling out as the fastest mobile phone data networks. Hurlston said that WiFi has always been faster than cellular data networks, so the naming of 5G WiFi versus 4G cellular is apt. But it may lead to consumer confusion down the road as 5G mobile networks debut at some point in the future.

“We made sure WiFi was part of the name so that consumers recognize what it is when we say 5G,” Hurlston said.

Still, since WiFi is faster than mobile networking such as 4G LTE, WiFi is expected to be part a big part of gadgetry in the future. More than 3 billion wireless-enabled WiFi devices are expected to be in use by 2015, according to Mark Hung, research director at Gartner Research. This generation of wireless could thus be the most influential wireless technology in the years to come, he said.

It should be noted that next generation of WiFi uses 802.11ac  that operates in the same 5 gigahertz band of the radio spectrum as its predecessors, 802.11a and n. (802.11b operated in the 2.4 gigahertz band, but 802.11ac is compatible with all past versions of WiFi).

This new technology is much faster than the existing ones as it delivers data at a wider channel of 80 megahertz instead of 40. Also, its 256-QAM, a modulation scheme that is four times more efficient than the prior 64-QAM scheme. Moreover, it taps multiple antennae using the MIMO spatial stream technology, using twice as many streams as were available before.

1. The most prominent features of the Broadcom new world’s first & fastest 5G WiFi  are;
2. It allows you to throw video from a central hub to a screen at a distant spot.
3. You can synch a lot of music or video files wirelessly, and surf the internet without any fear of losing battery life of the device.

 

Broadcom’s first family of chips designed for 802.11ac will be three times faster and six times more power efficient than previous 802.11n chips. The power efficiency stems from the faster speeds, as you can power down a wireless access point more quickly if the data moves more quickly through it. Video is expected to reach 90 percent of global consumer traffic, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Forecast.

The new breed of Broadcom’s chips consists of 4 numbers labeled as BCM4360, BCM4352, BCM43526 and BCM43516. Out of these, BCM 4360 is the fastest one with the fastest chip, with three simultaneous streams. The other would support only one or two streams and will be more suitable for smartphones and tablets.

Via: Venture Beat