Atheros AR5005VL Smart-Antenna Wireless Chipset

Smart-Antenna Wireless Chipset Delivering MIMO Performance to Standard 802.11 Products.

AR5005VL Technology Overview
Based on Atheros’ VLocity High-Performance Wireless Technologies, the AR5005VL solution is unique in its ability to boost performance on both ends of a wireless link (multiple input and multiple output), on the transmit side only (multiple output), or on the receive side only (multiple input). As a result, home routers, enterprise access points, or public hot spots that use VLocity deliver higher performance with a wide array of non-MIMO wireless LAN devices, including end users’ existing network interface cards, laptops with embedded wireless LAN, and digital media adapters.

The AR5005VL chipset is available in both 802.11g and 802.11a/g versions, supporting configurations with up to four antennas. These chipsets deliver up to 50 Mbps of actual user throughput when operating on both sides of the wireless connection. In mixed networks with a wide range of different 802.11g products, the Atheros technology delivers up to 27 Mbps of user throughput across a 3000-square-foot home even when on just one side of the link.

Atheros Super AG for the highest real world throughput and performance:
Super G and Super AG technologies offer the highest actual throughput – 1.5 to 2 times faster than standard 802.11g or 802.11a/g products in the wireless LAN market today – they are ideal for any application requiring high-speed transmission
- Streaming media: video, DVD, MPEG
- High-speed gaming
- Photo printing
- Large file transfers
- VoIP
- Or, providing multiple users on a single WLAN with optimal speeds despite network demand.