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Product Bulletin
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Atheros XSPAN® Technology
Expanding performance. Expanding possibilities.
Atheros offers the most innovative and complete
portfolio of 802.11n wireless LAN chipset solutions. The
new AR9001 family of chipsets, the second-generation of
Atheros’ XSPAN 802.11n technology, builds upon the
company’s first-generation XSPAN products – with
enhanced performance, higher integration, smaller form
factors and lower overall cost – to meet the needs of the rapidly growing 802.11n
market. Like the first-generation XSPAN products, all
AR9001 chipsets are compliant to the latest IEEE 802.11n specification.
Atheros’ AR9001 chipsets feature:
Leading Integration that delivers end product
cost and form factors to drive broad market adoption of 802.11n products;
Single- and Dual-Band, and Multiple MIMO
Configurations that enable OEMs to tailor product price/performance for
specific application and market segment requirements;
Rich Media & Peripheral Interfaces that
anticipate the requirements for advanced media networking applications and allow
end-product feature differentiation;
Simple Setup via Atheros’ JumpStart for Wireless,
the company’s simple network configuration software which supports
both the PIN and push-button setup methods complying to the Wi-Fi
Protected Setup specification;
Worldwide 5 GHz Full-Spectrum Support for
state-of-regulatory requirements with Atheros’ Dynamic Frequency Selection
(DFS).
Product Overview
Both the AR9001AP-2NX and AR9001AP-3NX solutions
incorporate all of the key components needed to build
the most cost-effective, dual-band configurable
AP/routers for home, carrier/gateway and enterprise
applications. These solutions feature the industry’s
first 802.11n System-on-Chip (SoC), with the
high-performance combination of Atheros’ 400 MHz
wireless network processor (WNPU) and Atheros’
market-proven MAC/Baseband. This powerful SoC, which
readily supports advanced 11n applications while
delivering processing headroom, is paired with Atheros’
second-generation, enhanced dual-configurable 2x2 and
3x3 single-chip radios, featuring XSPAN and XSPAN with
SST performance.
These dual-band configurable designs offer customers as
well as end-users the ability to select operation of
end-products for either the 2.4 or 5 GHz bands of
802.11n
- AR9001AP-2NX: 2x2 MIMO, Fast Ethernet LAN/WAN
- AR9001AP-3NX: 3x3 MIMO, Gigabit Ethernet LAN/WAN
Solution Highlights
- Next-generation, high-performance 802.11n
compliant wireless access point and router chipset solutions including:
AR9001AP-2NX
- AR9130: 400 MHz Wireless
Network Processing Unit (WNPU), 802.11n
MAC/Baseband, Fast Ethernet MACs, 2x2 MIMO
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AR9104: Dual-band 2x2 MIMO 802.11n Radio
AR9001AP-3NX
- AR9132: 400 MHz
Wireless Network Processing Unit (WNPU), 802.11n MAC/Baseband, Gigabit Ethernet MACs, 3x3 MIMO
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AR9106: Dual-band 3x3 MIMO 802.11n Radio
- Full support for Dynamic Frequency Selection
(DFS) enabling uncompromised operation in the broad range of 5 GHz
channels
- Atheros XSPAN with SST technology – providing
the industry’s highest TCP/IP throughput at enhanced range
- Support for 2x2 or 3x3 MIMO with spatial
multiplexing
- Enables bandwidth of 300 Mbps PHY/link rate –
six times the bandwidth of 802.11g or 802.11a
- Dual-band WLAN radios operate from 2.4 to 5 GHz
- Compliant with IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g,
802.11d, 802.11e, 802.11h, 802.11i, 802.11n
- Lead-free RoHS compliant
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AR9001AP-3NX and AR9001AP-2NX
Specifications |
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Frequency Band |
2.4 and 5 GHz |
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Network Standard |
802.11a,
802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n |
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Modulation Technology |
OFDM with
BPSK, QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM; DBPSK, DQPSK, CCK |
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FEC Coding Rate |
1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 |
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Hardware Encryption |
AES, TKIP,
WEP |
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Quality of Service |
802.11e |
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Peripheral Interface |
Fast/Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2., I²S,
SLIC, UART, GPIOs, LEDs |
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Memory Interfaces |
DDR, Serial/Parallel Flash |
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Supported Data Rates |
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IEEE 802.11a |
6 to 54 Mbps |
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IEEE 802.11b |
1 to 11 Mbps |
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IEEE 802.11g |
6 to 54 Mbps |
| IEEE 802.11n |
6.5 to 300 Mbps |
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For more information on Atheros and Atheros wireless technology please visit www.atheros.com
Specification subject to change © 2010 Atheros Communications, all rights reserved Atheros, the Atheros logo, XSPAN and XSPAN the logo are registered trademarks of Atheros Communications, Inc
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