Intel unveils new wireless technology

BANGALORE: Intel has created two silicon architectures for communication,

which aims at expedite the development of new communication equipment and

wireless clients that will address opportunities emerging from the convergence

of voice and data networks.

While the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel IXA) addresses the

network infrastructure needs of the next-generation networks, the Intel Personal

Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) will hasten the transition to the

next-generation wireless clients.

The need for greater Internet bandwidth is being driven by the rapid growth

of wireless devices, continued growth in wired Internet access, and the

convergence of voice and data over next-generation networks. This explosion of

digital data over the Internet creates a market opportunity for Intel’s

communications silicon components.

In the recently held Intel Developers Forum, the firm's Network

Communications Group vice president and general manager Mark Christensen,

demonstrated the world’s first single-chip Gigabit Ethernet solution for PCs,

servers and network infrastructure equipment. The new chip is less than half the

size and uses half the power of predecessor.

The forum also gave the company to unveil its latest array of components for

optical networking systems vendors that would give telecommunications service

providers the ability to extend the reach of their optical networks, add

intelligence to those networks and deliver new telecommunication services.

These new semiconductors use a technology called 'forward error correction'

to increase the distance so data can travel over optical networks by up to 400

per cent without having to install expensive repeaters that boosts the signals

traveling long distances over fiber optic cables. These components can also

receive and transmit data over multiple communications protocols that service

providers have to support on their networks.