802.11 Draft-N is hot – up to 300 Mbps of bandwidth today with up to 450 Mbps of bandwidth tomorrow. But did you know that not all 802.11 Draft-N products are the same? To be a connoisseur of these differences, a little background is required.
The dramatic performance and range improvements of 802.11 Draft-N didn’t just come out of thin air. Well, actually they did thanks in large part to MIMO (pronounced my moh). Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) is a wireless breakthrough that takes on the physics of wireless signals by exploiting a radio-wave phenomenon called multipath. When a radio sends a signal, that signal will start to weaken as the distance from the transmitter increases. In addition, that signal can also get reflected and/or absorbed by walls, doors, or other obstacles resulting in weaker copies of the original radio signal.
Wi-Fi has given us the freedom to connect to other computers and the Internet without wires. Wi-Fi is now spreading its wings into the world of consumer electronic (CE) devices. Everything from MP3 players and digital cameras to printers and projectors are jumping on the Wi-Fi bandwagon. And there’s much more to come.
Intel’s Cliffside project will take wireless freedom one giant step further with Wi-Fi PAN (Personal Area Network) technology that will transform an Intel® Centrino® 2 notebook with an Intel® WiFi Link 5000 Series adapter into your own personal wireless network for seamlessly connecting and managing these CE devices.
Whenever we’re asked to embrace something new, it’s rarely good to blindly accept things without exploring the change as an opportunity for improvement. You take the opportunity to look back and carry forward the best stories and achievements. It’s like taking those ingredients mixed with a dash of where you want to go…and baking the future.
All laptops were tuned to Intel Centrino 2 inside the Mezzanine in San Francisco on Monday. Good thing for me because I’m hunting for a new notebook, something small and powerful for editing HD video and photos on the go.
Most of us are eager to get the best bang for our buck, so when new technology comes out we’re forced to redo our homework. That’s how I felt at the launch event — see photos. There are so many sweet, new laptops to choose from with more on the way.
So far topping my list is the nifty Sony V series, but I’m digging around for at least another week. Please help me with my homework and share what’s topping your list. I saw lots of people on Twitter sharing their favorite Centrino 2 laptop picks already. Even Engadget has some rapid fire snapshots of many of the fresh notebooks, most of them in black or dark gray finish…just what I like!
In San Francisco on July 14, the Intel Montevina project morphed into the Intel Centrino 2 platform. Beyond jacking up performance and improving battery life, this beauty spread its wireless wings with the latest in Wireless-N (Draft-N) technology.
At the Intel Centrino 2 processor technology launch, the Intel WiFi Link 5300 with its 3x3 power (3 antennas, 3 spatial streams) was wirelessly connected to the Monsoon Multimedia Hava HD that broadcasted live HDTV out of thin air. I’ve seen this up-close-and-personal watching HD “soaps” on a Intel Centrino 2 notebook in my cube. It’s awesome!
You should definitely learn more about the powerful performance and extended range capabilities of the Intel WiFi Link 5300 running on the Intel Centrino 2 platform.
Intel baked mobility smarts into a new, eco-friendly Mercedes-Benz Smart car to show the wonders of mobile WiMAX while tooling down the road. It’s the next iteration of an away-from-home and out-of-office moving conduit connecting us to Al Gore’s information superhighway — a.k.a. life on the Internet.
If you’re in San Francisco on Monday, July 14 between 4 and 6:30 p.m., come see the WiMAX car in action at the Mezzanine. That’s where Intel’s celebrating the release of Intel Centrino 2, the second coming of the original Centrino, which brought built-in Wi-Fi and great battery life to laptops, helping ignite the worldwide demand for wireless Internet access in cafes, airports, hotels and other private and public places back in 2003.
Intel has recoiled tightly and about to uncork a new level of mobile computing with Intel Centrino 2. It’s the latest essential ingredients inside laptops jacking up performance, improving battery life and increasing wireless Internet experience on the go.
That’s where Parkour comes to mind. Parkour is the art and practice of movement, which is similar to what we at Intel like to call “mobility.”
…what if taking a morning jog didn’t mean training for a marathon or wearing short shorts? What if it meant creative, individual expression through acrobatic moves like leaping from walls and over gaps, ground rolls and precision jumping? Instead of running laps around the community park, you’d navigate through the city, making the urban landscape your personal obstacle course, a playground for strength, freedom, courage and discipline.
Parkour practitioners overcome obstacles quickly and efficiently, without using extraneous movement. Individual movements are defined by their intention to get somewhere using the most effective moves with the least loss of momentum. Being highly mobile and adaptive is the name of the game, with control and freedom to move through urban environment the way you want to. We see this sport much like how we see the new Intel Centrino 2 technology hitting the streets next week: powerful, mobile, in control with freedom to step towards your next move.
While I was stuck down on the Jones Farm, my colleagues in the MPG Wireless Go-to-Market team were rock’n at the 2008 Cisco Live conference in Orlando, Florida. This event is the mothership for serious enterprise IT with more than 10,000 attendees.
The Cisco Live theme “Power of Collaboration” was the perfect backdrop for this first-time Intel mobility presence. Lyle Warnke, Jon Marshall and Sanjiv Gupta drove Intel’s Diamond Sponsorship that set the stage for Intel, the leader in mobile platforms and wireless clients, and Cisco, the leader in wireless IT infrastructure to connect in a big way on next-generation enterprise mobility.
Live from Computex 2008 in Taipei, your favorite demo guy gets his hands on the real deal.
I’ve never said that being a demo guy doesn’t have its perks. And today I’ve got my privileged hands on a brand spanking new Asus Centrino 2 (“Montevina” for us nerds) system, as I blog away under the sexy glow of my new mobile powerhouse. Mmmmmmmm…..Asus M51VA with Penryn (drool); I can feel the high-K love quadrupling my words per minute as we speak. Well, not really. But I do want to finish up my post so I can get back to playing, er…testing, World of Warcraft over the live Fitel WiMAX network here in Taipei.
That’s right. You heard me correctly. Montevina, WiMAX; live in Taipei. Kind of strange to say it all in one mouthful, but it’s finally here.
While I was stuck down on the Jones Farm, my colleagues in the MPG Wireless Go-to-Market team were rock’n at the 2008 
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