A group of journalists got their first look at the power of next-generation Wi-Fi, or 802.11ac, during a demo event in San Francisco this week. Based on the early reports, it appears that they agree with us that 5G WiFi is ready for prime time and that the market is ready for 5G WiFi.
The event, which was held in a hip art gallery in San Francisco’s SOMA district, kicked off with a welcome by Broadcom Senior Vice President Michael …
The future of automotive technology arrived in Southern California this week — at Broadcom’s Irvine, Calif. headquarters, to be exact.
The Drive for Innovation roving media project is a year-long journey being conducted by EE Times Editorial Director Brian Fuller in a Chevy Volt as a way of promoting automotive innovation, via a blog. His journey led him to Broadcom to talk to a panel of resident experts about the current breakthroughs in automotive technology and explore what the …
How many of us remember a time before electricity? Or the telephone? Or cable TV?
How about Wi-Fi? Like many other technology breakthroughs, Wi-Fi is well on its way to becoming as mainstream as the electrical outlet. And just like the outlet changed through the years to become safer and more energy efficient, Wi-Fi is turning a corner into a next-generation version that’s faster, more reliable and better equipped to handle not only today’s demands but the wave of future …
A special interest group established by Broadcom just six months ago to drive wide scale adoption of Ethernet-based automotive connectivity has seen a 7x growth in members, jumping to 45 with the addition of Bosch, Continental, Jaguar-Land Rover and Renesas Electronics.
The OPEN Alliance (One-Pair Ether-Net) SIG was established to drive innovation for the next-generation car, with a specific focus on improving in-vehicle safety, comfort, and infotainment, while significantly reducing network complexity and …
The lineup of products powered by Broadcom’s 5G WiFi technology continues to grow, with Belkin being the latest to adopt the technology for a new portfolio of products.
Today, Belkin is announcing the June availability of its line of wireless routers supporting the new 802.11ac wireless networking standard. Broadcom was the first company to release a chip powered by the technology, a more powerful and robust successor to the current 802.11n technology. Broadcom’s 5G WiFi chips deliver Ethernet-quality speeds that …
Server architecture has come a long way since the days when each server was assigned to a specific application or task. Because many tasks don’t play well with others, each task required its own dedicated machine. It was a very basic, albeit not too efficient, approach to architect a data center network.
With today’s mega data centers and cloud-based services on the rise, computer networks are becoming larger and more complex, rendering the dedicated servers of yesteryear obsolete. As the …
Broadcom’s technologies were honored this week as being some of the best at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. Specifically, Broadcom’s family of 802.11ac – or 5GWiFi – chips was named Best New Product at the 2012 Network Products Guide Hot Companies and Best Products Award. And Broadcom’s NetXtreme Ethernet Solutions was named winner of the IT Products and Services for Enterprise (Medium) category.
The awards are an honor for Broadcom as it continues to see momentum around these innovative …
The halls of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas have been bustling with activity this week as IT professionals gathered for the Interop conference. Near the center of the show expo floor, Broadcom’s booth was an attraction as folks converged to learn more about Broadcom’s innovative technologies that are transforming the data center and giving enterprise companies more flexibility, more potential for cost savings and an opportunity to operate with greater energy efficiency.
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This week at Interop 2012, we’re thrilled to display products from our newly formed Processor & Wireless Infrastructure line of business, a result of our recent acquisition of NetLogic Microsystems.
The addition of leading knowledge-base and multi-core embedded processor technology to our growing Infrastructure & Networking portfolio extends Broadcom’s addressable market and provides our customer base with a complete end-to-end solution.
Combining bandwidth, connectivity and intelligence into one seamlessly integrated platform solution results in reduced integration costs, enhanced …
We’re excited to be in Las Vegas this week for the Interop show, where we’ll be showcasing the full line-up of our latest innovations enabling the next generation Data Center, Green IT and Enterprise 2.0. Visitors to our booth on the main show floor will get an up close and personal demonstration of our amazing technologies in action.
Terabit Anyone? In the Data Center area of our booth you will find our new 100GbE BCM88650 switch and BCM87550 fabric…
