Dadi Perlmutter Keynote

IDF 08-27-06 Afternoon session

Page 19

Craig: Hey, long time no see, Dadi.

David Perlmutter: Yeah.

Craig: So what we're actually doing for part two of showing off the

feature set of Santa Rosa, we have our 11N notebook right

here. And, you know, the main complaint that we're seeing is a

lot of people talking about wireless and especially for G is that

really, you know, there is some sort of sacrifice as far as the

performance, as well as the reliability that you have directly at

your desk right at your home. Well, we're going to go ahead and

blow that premise out of the water here on stage today.

So, what we're actually seeing here is on the bandwidth meter

that we're going ahead and feeding this notebook over our in-

connection. And that bottom line there is representing the traffic

on the maximum acceptable level of G. So, we're really going

ahead and filling up that spectrum all the way. And then what

we've done is kicked up 5x the traffic all the way up that we're

actually feeding this notebook, representing moving my high-

definition video around the home, streaming music, doing

surfing, and also having members of my family, with everyone

else around the table being able to surf and do those type of

things around the home.

But we always like to take it a step further. So, I'm going to go

ahead and kick off this high-definition video just as I would do in

front of my TV at home or in my bedroom. And we're going to