Marvell has announced volume production of it's new TopDog chip for wireless LANs, for use in Netgear routers.
While the 802.11n standard is still in draft status, most companies are already providing compatible solutions. The standard is said to improve range and performance will be boosted to 300Mbps, while Marvell has managed to increase that to a maximum of 600Mbps:
"Marvell TopDog WLAN products deliver data rates between 300 to 600 Mbps and ethernet connectivity from 100Mbps to 1 Gbps."
I'm looking forward to this new 802.11 standard, as it looks poised to replace cabled LANs as the home and small/medium office networking standard. Even though the early high price that will hamper it's market performance, it will eventually become affordable in a reasonable amount of time. Also, some new computers still feature only 10/100Mbps ethernet connections, making them target to replace cabled LANs even in those environments that require some performance. For now wireless networks won't be able to compete with Gigabit LAN, but those aren't really widespread networks and are more commonly reserved for enterprise usage.
Keywords: Marvell TopDog 802.11n draft 600Mbps Netgear
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