Tim Higgins
The RT2800 chipset supports PCI, MiniPCI, CardBus, USB 2.0, PCIe and MiniCard interfaces. The USB 2.0 version has a patented antenna inside a small housing that enables the entire draft-802.11n design to fit inside the small footprint of a USB package. This chipset also has its software driver in optional onboard flash memory instead of on CD-ROM.
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.)
D-Link has started to ship a mobile AP/storage sharer announced at CES.
D-Link today announced a new single band 802.11n router with an 8 port 10/100 switch.
