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Delays, missteps and over-aggressive marketing have made this once promising technology something you can live without. Read on SmallNetBuilder

Broadcom is taking what it thinks is a more pragmatic approach to getting a slice of the 802.11ax pie. The company's Tuesday announcement of its Max WiFi 802.11ax device family unveiled three devices, two built with four stream architectures and one with two streams, instead of the eight stream...

Wi-Fi may have a better shot than 5G LTE in the race to be the next mobile technology. Read on SmallNetBuilder

Fun read - this exploit was patched in iOS 10.3.1... https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html

ARRIS International and Broadcom Limited today announced they have entered into an agreement for ARRIS to acquire Brocade Communication Systems Inc.'s Ruckus Wireless and ICX Switch business. Deal terms are $800 million cash, plus the additional cost of unvested employee stock awards...

Bloomberg today reported that Apple has been shutting down the group that develops its AirPort Wi-Fi routers for the past year. This should come as no real surprise, given that Apple has not updated its router line since 2013. This is not great news for Broadcom, which supplies the devices for...

Might have been below the radar scope of many, but finding TurboQAM clients can be a challenge... The Pi 3 includes the BCM43438 WiFi/BT combo chip - while it's single stream, and 20MHz only, it supposedly supports TurboQAM for a 96Mbps bandwidth at the PHY... Anyone with a Broadcom based...

Broadcom announced its intent to purchase Brocade for $5.9 billion, expanding the chip company’s reach into the data center market. This strategic move could potentially put it in competition with customer companies like Cisco, HP and Intel. So Broadcom said it would sell Brocade’s networking...

Broadcom recently announced the BCM4366E, a new 4x4 wireless radio SoC to be used in upcoming MU-MIMO routers, gateways, and set top boxes. Aside from serving up current wireless AC services, the BCM4366E adds a couple of new Wi-Fi technologies to boost performance, including: RangeBoost –...

Maybe Netgear, Asus, Linksys, D-Link don't meet your needs - well, you can roll your own... Cute little Dev board - AllWinner A20 with a 4 port switched lan (Broadcom 53125 ethernet switch)... http://www.banana-pi.org/r1.html OpenWRT is supported, along with a few other ARM variant linux...

TP-LINK's AC1200 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Archer C5 V2 is a very different router than the original. Read on SmallNetBuilder

] D-Link's DIR-895L/R AC5300 Ultra Wi-Fi Router is late to the AC5300 party, yet still doesn't have working MU-MIMO. Read on SmallNetBuilder

TP-LINK's AC3150 Wireless MU-MIMO Gigabit Router provides no practical benefit over its less expensive AC2600 cousins. Read on SmallNetBuilder

Arris' SBX-AC1200P SURFboard Wireless Network Extender with RipCurrent is a nice little powerline-connected Wi-Fi extender, but trapped in a G.hn world. Read on SmallNetBuilder

Linksys today announced the start of shipment for three MU-MIMO products announced at January's CES 2016. The EA9500 AC5400 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Router with MU-MIMO is Linksys' new big-boy router. It's based on Broadcom's 4x4 MU-MIMO enabled radio and three-radio XStream architecture. The two 5 GHz...

Cypress will acquire Broadcom’s IoT business, and its related assets, in a $550 million all-cash transaction. Post-acquisition, Broadcom will continue working on non-IoT wireless solutions for devices like laptops, smartphone, and set-top boxes, while Cypress will be in a greater position to...

Powered by Broadcom’s 64-bit quad-core BCM49408 CPU, the new Wireless AC Wave 2 access point platform doubles up on the 5 GHz channels and will be available in two different flavors: Dual Band, Dual Concurrent (2.4 GHz+ 5 GHz or 5GHz +5 GHz) Tri-Radio (2.4 GHz + 5 GHz + 5 GHz) The new...