Broadcom Takes One for the Team
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No pain, no gain. It's as true for semiconductor designers as it is for your workout regimen.
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Companies will demonstrate how their technology will work together.
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Chip maker likely is making way for new products.
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Distribution system could help businesses manage software upgrades on wireless devices.
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Wi-Fi users can now enjoy high-speed wireless connections at distances up to 50% greater than existing solutions, thanks to two new 54g wireless LAN chipsets, introduced by Broadcom Corporation.
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The technology company's move gives cause for pause until you take a closer look.
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Toshiba wants to play on everyone's team
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(InfoWorld) - Broadcom Corp., one of networking's biggest chip makers, is buying a vendor of production-ready software for network gear. LVL7 Systems Inc. sells software that runs switches and routers for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). By delivering that software to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and ODMs (original design manufacturers) and integrating and testing it with their products, LVL7 cuts development costs and time to market. Broadcom will pay about US$62 million in cash for LVL7, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The deal, announced Wednesday, has been approved by both companies' boards and LVL7 shareholders, and it should close by the end of the year, according to the companies. Broadcom supplies various chips to some of the biggest names in networking, including Cisco Systems Inc., Nortel Networks Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Motorola Inc. LVL7 will let it deliver a complete package of hardware and software to vendors making SMB equipment, helping them more quickly bring out new products and enter new technology areas, such as wireless LAN switching, according to the companies. LVL7 said Broadcom has been a partner for several years. LVL7, founded in 1999, has about 170 employees split between Research Triangle Park and Hyderabad, India. They will become Broadcom employees and remain in those locations, said Broadcom spokeswoman Gennis Lafayette.
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Long-range wireless networking technology draws market interest as low-cost service.
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Wi-Fi silicon vendor Broadcom plans to release new Wi-Fi security software that allows users to easily set up secure home wireless networks with access points from Linksys GroupÂ and devices from Hewlett-Packard (HP), the companies are expected to announce Wednesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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In an attempt to blockade Google's Android platform at the big Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Broadcom is putting forth a chip with some real ammunition behind it, supporting the existing big three mobile OSes all at once.
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First hardware maker to align with community-based Linux offering.
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Company aims to make it easier for Linux to be incorporated into low-cost consumer handsets.
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A small company learns to think big -- meeting the needs of its enterprise-class customers -- by building an infrastructure it can count on.
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NEW YORK - If you build it, they will come... or so Qualcomm hopes. The wireless chip and technology vendor is betting that if it constructs a nationwide network to stream television over cell phones, cellular
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Technology that can converge different wireless gadgets into a single device is discussed at a conference.
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Ribbit, a startup telecommunications company, is trying to take on the big telcos by offering something they can't: a telephone network that's easy for developers to use in creating a variety of devices and applications.