RE: [SOCALWUG] AP with prism GT chipset

[Adeel Ahmad]

One more point to add is that the way the alphabetic soup ( a,b,g,e,n) has been increasing , its difficult for the enterprise customers to update all the wireless infrastructure whenever they need to upgrade to a better technology, so the WLAN vendors have started using this technique to make their equipment upgradable in future.

 

Just as an example, the cisco  802.11b access point sells for about 700 a  piece, if you want to upgrade it to .11a or .11g just open it up and change the mini PCI card inside with the newer one. All the ethernet functionality is going to be same, you have just changed the radio to a different data rate / frequency.

Adeel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Prism gt is the chipset on the mini PCI cards used by Intersil, on their
PCMCIA and min PCI cards. LINK:
http://www.intersil.com/pr/shell/0,1091,1012,00.html
PCMCIA and mini PCI cards, like the once in your computer is also used in
Access points and all other Infrastructure units. Open your access point
and you will see a PCMCIA card, just recently manufactures start using
mini PCI because they do not have the loos of the build in antenna�.. and
they are more cost effective.

Martin Madsen
CTO, Bel Air Internet



> Adeel,
>
> Excuse me, a bit confused on this point: an access point in mini PCI
> format [read form factor?]. The term Access Point usually refers to an
> integrated chipset, mini-server, enclosure, external antenna, one or two
> RJ45 Ethernet port, and AC power adapters, which almost always acts as a
> wireless Ethernet extension of an always-on internet connection.
> Cable-modem, DSL, and T1 are examples. The terms client card, wireless
> PC card, wireless card, and wireless network card usually refer to
> PCMCIA cards (these cards are those designed to plug into the slots
> found in almost all PC laptops). PCI cards usually refer to the cards
> internally plugging into the motherboard of a desktop PC. Mini-PCI
> cards usually refer to the cards internally plugging into the
> motherboard of a laptop PC. Hope I haven't made a mistake or missed
> something.
>
> Please advise. Would like to see someone address what I think is at the
> the heart of the issue: the Prism GT chipset.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Caleb
>
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> Subject: [SOCALWUG] AP with prism GT chipset
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>
> Does anyone know of an Access point with Prism GT chipset ( preferably
> in mini PCI format) ?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Adeel
>
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