INTEGRATED WIRELESS ACCESS POINT FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

A major Japanese electronics company approached Sigpro for strategic advice on how to integrate WLAN (wireless LAN) components in their product line. Sigpro defined a product plan that described the available technologies and the cost and schedule of implementation, allowing the client to determine the timing and viability of adding this capability.

Customer Requirement
The customer needed technical and market information in order to make a decision on adding WLAN capability to its product.

Sigpro Approach
Our system approach along with our hands-on experience in WLAN technologies allowed us to efficiently handle the customer's request. We proposed an emerging technology that fit the technical requirements of the customer and offered fast time to market.

Key Results:

• Sigpro proposed a technological approach to developing a highly flexible product that reduced the customer's stated time-to-market, at a cost of development implementation that was less than half that of the traditional approach.
  
  
• A slightly higher unit cost for this approach greatly reduced the expected time to market.
  
  
• The approach offered an unparalleled ability to change both the WLAN implementation, as well as system-level competitive differentiation factors, all via software (not new silicon).