Marvell introduced the first 802.11ac 4×4 wireless local area network (WLAN) system-on-chip (SoC), offering up to 1.3 Gbps of Wi-Fi throughput.
The Marvell Avastar 88W8864 is designed to improve the throughput of enterprise and retail access points (APs) and the robustness of wireless video distribution.
Highlights:
- 4×4 MIMO dual-band 802.11ac solution
- 1.3Gbps WLAN PHY rate
- Channel bandwidth up to 80MHz
- 256 QAM modulation scheme
- Implicit and explicit Transmit Beamforming technology
- Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)
- Wi-Fi offload engine
- Marvell Spectrum Management
- Multi-stream, low PER and latency HD video
- Integrated Wi-Fi position engine
- Earlier this year, Marvell announced the first 802.11ac 2×2 combination radio chip, the Avastar 88W8897, which pairs near field communications (NFC) and Bluetooth 4.0 – with mobile multiple input multiple output (MIMO), transmit beamforming and support for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast.
- Marvell introduced an 802.11n 4×4 SoC in 2010.