Wi-Fi
The final approval of the 802.11be standard may only be scheduled for December 2024, but that has not put a spanner in the works of the Wi-Fi Alliance in creating a Wi-Fi 7 certification program. At the 2024 CES, the program was officially announced with products based on silicon from Broadcom, Intel, Mediatek, and Qualcomm obtaining the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 7 tag. Broadcom, Mediatek, and Qualcomm have already been through two generations of Wi-Fi 7 products, and it is promising to finally see Wi-Fi 7 exit draft status. This enables faster adoption on the client side, as well. The key features of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 7 are based on the efforts of the IEEE 802.11be EHT (Extremely High Throughput) working group. The introduction of 6 GHz support in...
Broadcom Updates Wi-Fi 7 Portfolio with Lower Cost Second Generation Silicon
Wi-Fi 7 has been gaining slow traction in the market over the last few quarters. Despite a large number of product announcements towards the end of last year (including...
4 by Ganesh T S on 6/20/2023
Netgear Introduces Nighthawk RS700 Wi-Fi 7 Router
Wireless networking has seen rapid strides over the last couple of years with the opening up of the 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi purposes. Silicon vendors updated their Wi-Fi...
15 by Ganesh T S on 3/14/2023
Qualcomm Launches Wi-Fi 7 Networking Pro Series for 10Gbps Access Points
The last few months have seen multiple vendors launch products in the Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) space. Mediatek demonstrated working 802.11be-compliant silicon under the Filogic lineup earlier this year. Concrete...
17 by Ganesh T S on 5/4/2022
Broadcom Launches Wi-Fi 7 Portfolio for Access Points and Client Devices
The last few years have seen heightened consumer focus on wireless networking. The industry has also been quite busy, enabling the operation of Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) in the 6GHz...
26 by Ganesh T S on 4/12/2022
Netgear Launches WAX630E AX7800 Wi-Fi 6E Access Point for SMBs
Netgear has been building up a portfolio of software-defined networking (SDN) products over the last few years. The introduction of the cloud-based Insight management feature to their lineup of...
9 by Ganesh T S on 2/22/2022
Netgear Introduces Orbi Pro SXK50 AX5400 Mesh System for SMBs
Netgear Business - the SMB-/SME-focused arm of Netgear - has been delivering mesh Wi-Fi systems to small businesses under the Orbi Pro lineup since 2017. The 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5...
0 by Ganesh T S on 1/3/2022
China's SMIC To Build a GigaFab for $8.87B: An Answer to the Shortages
As a result of being on the US Entity list, SMIC's blacklisting has caused troubles in the company developing and deploying leading-edge fabrication technologies. As a result, it has...
23 by Anton Shilov on 9/6/2021
Netgear Launches WAX630 AX6000 Wi-Fi 6 Access Point for SMBs
Netgear has been slowly building up its Wi-Fi 6 business portfolio over the last couple of years. Today, the company is launching its flagship SMB access point in its...
11 by Ganesh T S on 6/29/2021
Intel’s Chief Revenue Officer: We have Silicon, but Shortages in Wi-Fi, Substrates, Panels
One of the key commentaries about the current semiconductor shortages is around where exactly the bottlenecks are. The traditional interpretation of a semiconductor shortage implies that not enough silicon...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/4/2021
QNAP Launches QHora-301W: An Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Router with Dual 10GBASE-T Ports
QNAP is a well-known manufacturer of network-attached storage (NAS) units. Recently they have been testing the waters in allied areas such as switches and Wi-Fi expansion cards. As a...
33 by Ganesh T S on 12/1/2020
Netgear Updates Orbi Pro Lineup with Wi-Fi 6 AX6000 Tri-Band Model
Mesh networking kits / Wi-Fi systems have emerged as key revenue streams for networking equipment vendors in the consumer space. In mid-2017, Netgear brought over this strategy to the...
19 by Ganesh T S on 9/3/2020
Netgear Launches WAX610 AX1800 Wi-Fi 6 Access Point for SMBs
Wi-Fi 6 deployment in the consumer market has achieved critical mass, with almost all modern smartphones and notebooks equipped with support for 802.11ax technology. As expected, we are starting...
11 by Ganesh T S on 8/4/2020
Qualcomm’s March on Connection Quality: New RF Filters with up to 0.8 dB Better Performance
One of the key components to any wireless system is the ability to detect the required frequency and ensure a clean signal with a stable connection. In order to...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/18/2020
Caltech Wins $1.1 Billion in Patent Suit Against Apple & Broadcom
The US District Court for the Central District of California this week ruled that Broadcom’s W-Fi chips used by Apple infringe on patents helds by the California Institute of...
34 by Anton Shilov on 1/31/2020
Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E Moniker for 802.11ax in the 6 GHz Spectrum
Wi-Fi platform vendors have long been citing the lack of enough spectrum in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands as true gigabit wireless becomes commonplace. In fact, despite...
12 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020
ASUS Brings Wi-Fi 6 to Desktops with PCE-AX3000 Card
ASUS has introduced one of the industry’s first Wi-Fi 6 cards for desktops. The ASUS PCE-AX3000 dual band PCIe 3.0 x1 adapter promises to provide up to 2.4 Gbps...
23 by Anton Shilov on 11/19/2019
Wi-Fi 6 Is Officially Here: Certification Program Begins
Wi-Fi Alliance on Monday officially started its Wi-Fi 6 certification program, informally kicking off the widescale adoption of the new Wi-Fi standard. As with the group's previous certification programs...
36 by Anton Shilov on 9/16/2019
Qualcomm Updates Wi-Fi 6 Lineup: Networking Pro Series for APs and FastConnect for Clients
Qualcomm is announcing an update to its Wi-Fi 6 portfolio today with a host of new access point solutions under the Networking Pro Series moniker. The client side solutions...
9 by Ganesh T S on 8/27/2019
Qualcomm 5G Home Broadband Reference Design Announced: Aquantia Multi-Gig Ethernet Inside
One of the key target markets for 5G deployments is ‘the last mile of copper’ from the local cabinet to the home. In order to avoid churning up streets...
13 by Ian Cutress on 4/10/2019
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