Symbol Migrates to 802.11a

By Michael Foley
iApplianceWeb
(05/07/02, 01:13:00 PM EDT)

Symbol Technologies, Inc. has brought out an 802.11a compliant access point and CompactFlash card. The Mobius 5224 Access Point is designed for dedicated high-bandwidth wireless applications, based on the IEEE 802.11a specification, that coexists with IEEE 802.11b and 802.11 wireless networks. The Symbol CompactFlash embedded LAN/WAN module, designed for OEM application, provides voice and data communications over either IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi), GSM, or GPRS wireless networks.

The Mobius 5224 Access Point is industrially designed to snap onto installed Symbol Spectrum24 frequency hopping (FH) and Spectrum24 High Rate Wi-Fi access points, creating two wireless networks in a single location - one dedicated to existing moderate-bandwidth (1Mbps to 11Mbps) mobile computing applications and one dedicated to high-bandwidth (6 to 72Mbps) applications.

The Symbol CompactFlash embedded LAN/WAN module is a Type-II extended CompactFlash card with external antenna connectors.

The Mobius 5224 delivers up to 54Mbps data rate, per the IEEE 802.11a standard, with rate scaling to 48, 36, 24, 12, 9 and 6 Mbps for optimum data through-put, and up to 72Mbps data rate in proprietary "turbo mode". The embedded LAN/WAN module operates over the 2.4GHz band for voice and data throughput of up to 11Mbps on wireless LANs, and over the 900/1800/1900 MHz band for GSM and over 850/1900MHz for GPRS on wide-area wireless networks.

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