Quantenna Communications announced the industry’s first 802.11ax silicon. Sampling is expected to begin early in 2017.
802.11ax provides increased speed over 802.11ac and is designed to increase Wi-Fi efficiency in dense deployments.
Quantenna’s forthcoming product, called QSR10G-AX, is built on the company’s QSR10G Wave 3 Wi-Fi platform. It adds support for the draft 1.0 of the IEEE specification 802.11ax standard.
Key QSR10G-AX Planned Features and Benefits:
- Integrated AP chipset for dual-band (5GHz and 2.4GHz), dual concurrent operation and management
- Pin-to-Pin compatibility with QSR10G
- 802.11ax Draft 1.0 compliant
- 12-stream operation
- Supports rich set of interfaces to external hosts such as PCIe Gen3/Gen2, RXAUI, RGMII, and others
- Support 2.4GHz coexistence interface
- Enable full offload for external host
- Cloud managed
“Innovation is what drives us at Quantenna,” said Dr. Sam Heidari, Chairman and CEO at Quantenna. “We were the first company to deliver 4×4 802.11n, 4×4 802.11ac and 8×8 802.11ac. Now, we are proud to continue our Wi-Fi industry leadership by being the first to announce an 802.11ax compliant solution.”
http://www.quantenna.com/2016/10/quantenna-announces-worlds-first-802-11ax-wi-fi-solution/