Wireless technology is becoming faster every few months and is almost catching up to wired Local Area Network speeds which are typically at 100Mbps. The wireless standard 802.11g reached 54Mbps and the next generation of that technology called 802.11n surpassed the 100Mbps mark over wireless. That was a significant step forward. Now PR Newswire announced that chipmaker Marvell is set to launch an even faster version of the 802.11n chip.

It all started with 802.11b which pumped out a whopping 11Mbps in 1999. Doesn’t seem like much bandwidth now but at the time it was released 802.11b was the “almighty” wireless standard which every chipmaker was trying to reach. Four years later came 802.11g which sends and receives data at 54Mbps speeds. The 11g standard became so popular in the industry that it exists in most laptops even today. If your laptop is 6 months old chances are you are running 802.11g wireless. The next leap in wireless evolution is 802.11n which is not yet officially released and still has draft status. Transmitting and receiving data at 248Mbps 11n standard is set to release the next evolution in the 802 family. Now Marvell has joined the game and leaped ahead of others with its own version of 802.11n chip capable of 450Mbps data transfer speeds.

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