Sunday, September 21, 2003

TI Rolls Out 802.11-enabled ADSL Router Design

Texas Instruments introduced a Wi-Fi ADSL router design that supports legacy ADSL, as well as the new ADSL2 and ADSL2+ standards, at the Computex Taipei tradeshow in Taiwan. The design combines TI's ADSL router-on-a-chip, the AR7, with its 802.11b/g solution. The AR7W improves performance of ADSL routers with two unique enhancements developed by TI -- TurboDSL packet accelerator technology and dynamic adaptive equalization (DAE). TI's TurboDSL packet accelerator improves the downstream performance by providing 300 percent faster packet acknowledgement over current ADSL router solutions. The dynamic adaptive equalization (DAE) capability enables easier consumer self-installs especially over copper access lines that contain bridge taps, which previously required one or more truck-rolls.
http://www.ti.com/dsl