WWiSE stands for World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency.

Two large industry "Pre-N" groups, the TGnSync Group and the World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE), have formed, and each espouses a different approach to achieving next-generation wireless technologies. WWiSE won the support of Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...

, Broadcom

Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los...

, Conexant

Conexant

Conexant Systems, Inc. is an American semiconductor company, formerly the semiconductor division of Rockwell International. Currently it's privately owned by Golden Gate Capital, an equity firm headquartered in San Francisco.-History:...

, STMicro, Airgo Networks

Airgo Networks

Airgo Networks , is a Palo Alto, California-based company specializing in the development of multiple-input multiple-output wireless technology. Founded in 2001, Airgo is a lead proponent of the 802.11n standard....

 and Bermai, and later Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

. Leading the WWiSE group is Airgo Networks, which is headed by former Stanford

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 researcher Greg Raleigh. Airgo is a chief proponent of MIMO

MIMO

In radio, multiple-input and multiple-output, or MIMO , is the use of multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver to improve communication performance. It is one of several forms of smart antenna technology...

 (multiple in, multiple out) technology using multiple radios and multiple antennas. Its current chipset can currently be found in access points from Belkin

Belkin

Belkin International, Inc., is a Californian manufacturer of computer hardware that specializes in connectivity devices, headquartered in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California...

 and Linksys

Linksys

Linksys by Cisco, commonly known as Linksys, is a brand of home and small office networking products now produced by Cisco Systems, though once a separate company founded in 1995 before being acquired by Cisco in 2003...

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