Last week, I spoke with a senior manager at Broadcom, a company with very deep roots indeed in wireless LANs, and one of the leading suppliers of Wi-Fi chips. The purpose of the call was to explore ...

There is no doubt 802.11ac is the largest jump in wireless technology since we went from 802.11g to 802.11n. If you are one that is in the market for an adapter to take advantage of the new technology ...

Good news for people who love fast things: Broadcom is sliding into CES with its first gigabit-speed 802.11ac chips, all based on fifth-generation WiFi technology. For those unaware, 5G WiFi is aimed ...

We’ve long touted the upcoming Broadcom 802.11AC chips as a natural fit for upcoming Macs, as well as long-term solutions to Apple’s TV streaming product(s). 802.11ac allows wireless networks to ...

That 802.11n router not keeping up with the gigabit pipe to your homestead? Netgear's latest may just give you a much-anticipated boost. The R6300 Dual-Band Gigabit WiFi Router is the first to utilize ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif — Broadcom Corp has declared itsallegiance to the forthcoming 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, which it hopes willreplace the current 802.11n standard in its consumer electronics hardware ...

2012 is going to be a huge year for 802.11ac, with, as is becoming the norm for wireless LANs, lots of products well in advance of the standard. This is in no way to denigrate the standards process, ...

Broadcom plans to bring IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi to smartphones starting early next year, using a chipset announced on Tuesday that the company said can deliver about 300Mbps (bits per second) of ...

When it comes the bandwidth for wireless networks, many people always want more. More speed and more bandwidth are very important if you make heavy use of your wireless network for transferring large ...

Broadcom said that products using the next-generation IEEE 802.11ac wireless technology would ship near the end of 2012, providing a roadmap to wireless technology above 1 Gbit/s. Broadcom offered a ...