Ralink Technology Corp.,a top 5 Wi-Fi chipset manufacturer with 12% of the World Wide WLAN chipset market, announced the launch of Ralink’s RT2700 802.11n 1T2R chipset. The one transmit, two receive chipset is available in a half-sized PCIe minicard.

The RT2700 chipset is ideal for notebook and desktop PC’s and offers the high throughput and coverage of 802.11n at a price point approaching current 802.11b/g solutions. The RT2700 uses a 1T2R architecture is capable of up to 300 Mbps downstream and 150 Mbps upstream PHY rates.

RT2700 is fully backward compatible with the existing industry wireless standards such as 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. The chipset is currently available with an 802.11n evaluation board, reference design and driver software for the Windows Vista operating system.

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via: businesswire