Steerable Wireless LAN

Plasma Antennas' steerable wireless LAN antenna will revolutionise the deployment of wireless networks. An access point equipped with a Plasma WLAN antenna will :

- Have increased range
- Be able to serve more client terminals
- Provide higher data rates
- Be more resilient to interferance
- Enable increased security

The inital design will operate in the 5GHz wireless lan bands (802.11a). The antenna will have a 360 degree field of view in azimuth and be able to switch between any two beam positions in the timeslot between packets. The antenna will be capable of multiple simultaneous transmit and receive beams. An omnidirectional mode will also be available. A further design will be considered for 802.11b/g (2.4 GHz) applications. Prototypes are expected towards in early 2004.

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