Tim Higgins
The ASUS RT-N16‘s features include 128 MB of DDR2 RAM, four-port Gigabit switch and two USB 2.0 ports for printer and storage sharing. WEP and Personal and Enterprise modes for WPA and WPA2 wireless security are supported.
Pricing and availability were not announced.
The triple play is the convergence of data, voice, and television (IPTV) across a single pipe: Wi-Fi's in-home dominance of data and increasingly voice and IPTV (with proprietary extensions) will be challenged, ABI Research says, by the latest versions of three standards that work over coax, electrical wiring, and phone wiring. ABI Research says that by 2011, over 45 million gateways will offer wired-based distribution of data, voice, and video. (The quadruple play, by the way, adds mobile voice.)
Atheros today announced two single-chip 802.11n products targeted at home gateway designs for service providers. The new dual-band, 2.4GHz/5GHz, AR9220 ...
The Bluetooth SIG announced the formation of the Bluetooth Smart Mesh Working Group
