Agere

This page covers the following companies: COMTEN → NCR → AT&T → Lucent → Agere.

Agere Systems Inc.
Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.




 * FCC ID: IMR

Timeline

 * 1988: COMTEN / NCR Corporation introduces WaveLAN to the market.
 * For more information see


 * 1991: AT&T acquires NCR
 * 1995: Digital Ocean starts development of WLAN MAC for AT&T WaveLAN division
 * 1995: AT&T Wi-Fi assets are spun-off to Lucent
 * 2002: Lucent Wi-Fi assets are spun-off to Agere
 * Agere collaborated with Infineon on an unreleased (?) Wi-Fi chipset


 * 2004: Agere exited the Wi-Fi chip business
 * 2007: Agere was merged into LSI Corporation
 * 2014: LSI was in turn acquired by Avago Technologies

ORiNOCO brand

 * Wi-Fi products sold by Lucent / Agere during the early days of 802.11 generally carry the ORiNOCO brand.
 * However, the ORiNOCO brand / product line was acquired by Proxim in 2002 where it remains in use to this day.
 * Aside from the Proxim 8420-WD and Proxim 8421-WD (Gold / Silver HERMES II cards), no subsequent ORiNOCO products used Agere's chipsets.

NCR

 * NCR Icarus 008-0126999 CQ08679 (Modem / DSP)
 * NCR Daedalus 008-0127211 (Modem / DSP)
 * For more information, see and Hacking Original 915MHz WaveLAN.

802.11 PC Cards

 * Lucent WaveLAN Bronze
 * 2M, no encryption


 * Lucent WaveLAN (later rebranded ORiNOCO) Silver
 * 11M, WEP-64 / WPA-TKIP
 * physically identical to the Gold models


 * Lucent WaveLAN (later rebranded ORiNOCO) Gold
 * 11M, WEP-128 / WPA-TKIP
 * physically identical to the Silver models


 * Agere ORiNOCO Gold
 * 11M, WEP-128 / WPA-TKIP
 * new design w/ Ruby radio