[Note: With chipsets like these soon to become available, we stand on the cusp of very exciting times for having access to low-cost fixed broadband wireless radios. Right now a 45 Mbps unlicensed U-NII band radio from a company such as Western Multiplex costs $9600 retail. We're going to see that cost drop to less than $1500 as soon as the production on chipsets like this and 802.11a start to ramp up.] Intersil Begins Shipping New CommLink Modem Chip Set Enabling 155 Megabit-Per-Second Broadband Wireless Access Networks IRVINE, CA, April 30, 2001 - Intersil (NASDAQ: ISIL), a leading developer of silicon technology for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), today announced it is shipping its new CommLink OC-3 Modem chip set and reference design to customers who are designing broadband wireless Internet and cellular backhaul infrastructure equipment. Intersil's new ISL87060 chip set-the first product resulting from its strategic acquisition of Scottsdale-based SiCOM, Inc. last October-is designed to enable low-cost, rapid deployment of point-to-point digital radio systems that support wireless transmission of voice, data and video at OC-3/STM-1 speeds of 155 megabits-per-second (Mbps). Production shipments have begun to fulfill initial customer orders.... http://www.intersil.com/pressroom/20010430_OC-3_English.asp
