Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO) continues its historic leadership in
Wi-Fi by launching Max WiFi, the industry’s first family of
connectivity solutions using the next Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ax. The
Max WiFi chips enable up to four times faster download speeds, six
times faster upload speeds, four times better coverage, and seven
times better battery life than similar Wi-Fi solutions on the
market today that use 802.11ac. The chips released today are
designed to kick-start an ecosystem of Wi-Fi routers, residential
gateways, enterprise access points, and client devices that deliver
next generation Wi-Fi. Visit www.maxwifi.org to learn more about
the advantages of Max WiFi: 802.11ax.
Max WiFi is the sixth generation of Wi-Fi and the most powerful
standard yet, with innovations that go beyond speed. Max WiFi
supports delivery of simultaneous video, voice, data and IOT
services to an ever-increasing number of wireless devices. This
means that steady, high-speed Wi-Fi with unprecedented quality of
service is available wherever consumers want it: homes, offices and
high-traffic public venues such as stadiums. Max WiFi’s unique
architecture is also optimized for internet upload, making social
media live-streaming and cloud storage seamless.
The demand for high performance Wi-Fi in the home is growing
unabated with a typical family of four expected to have an average
of 50 connected devices by 2022. At the same time, the amount of
media content exchanged among mobile devices through the cloud has
increased exponentially. According to Extreme Networks, an
astounding 11.8 Terabytes of data was generated at this year’s
Super Bowl by fans posting videos, updating status, and streaming
live from the stadium. The need to support the ‘things’ that
connect the home and the mobile devices that create and consume
video content in the moment already strain existing Wi-Fi networks.
This will be more pronounced for emerging applications such as
augmented reality & virtual reality. Broadcom’s Max WiFi, with
its innovative architecture, addresses these growing needs of
modern consumers in their connected homes.
Broadcom’s ecosystem of Max WiFi products includes BCM43684,
BCM43694 & BCM4375.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:
Max WiFi implements:
- Uplink and Downlink Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple
Access (OFDMA) technology, which is the fundamental building block
of 802.11ax. OFDMA significantly increases efficiency and
capacity of the wireless network as several devices. communicate
concurrently in portions of the frequency spectrum allocated
proportional to their needs. In addition, it enables fine
grain quality of service for complex quadruple play applications
via the implementation of sophisticated downlink and uplink
scheduling.
- Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) technology to increase channel
capacity when servicing multiple simultaneous devices.
- Target Wake Time (TWT) to orchestrate specific times when
clients wake and sleep enabling mobile devices to reduce power
consumption and increase battery life.
- Spatial Reuse, which allows access points to more efficiently
share channel capacity by making intelligent decisions on when to
transmit data.
The BCM43684 is a chip targeted for the residential Wi-Fi market
while the BCM43694 is optimized for use in enterprise access
points. Key features include:
- Support for 4-streams of 802.11ax
- 4.8 Gbps PHY Rate
- 160 MHz Channel Bandwidth
- 1024 QAM Modulation
- Uplink & Downlink OFDMA
- MU-MIMO
- ZeroWait DFS
- AirIQ Interference Identification
- Full compliance to IEEE and WFA 802.11ax specifications
The BCM4375 is a smartphone combo chip. Key Features
include:
- Support for 2-streams of 802.11ax
- Bluetooth 5.0+ including Low-Energy Long Range (LELR)
- Real Simultaneous Dual-Band (RSDB)
- 1.429 Gbps PHY Rate
- 1024 QAM Modulation
- OFDMA
- MU-MIMO
Broadcom is sampling Max WiFi solutions to its early access
partners in retail, enterprise and smartphone, service provider,
and carrier segments.
802.11ax has generated broad support across the
consumer-electronics industry. Companies and partners across the
ecosystem appreciate the importance of 802.11ax and are committed
to its development, integration, and distribution.
Supporting Quotes
Greg Fischer, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Broadband Carrier Access, Broadcom
“Our reliance on Wi-Fi has increased tremendously as we stream
live experiences over social media and upload pictures and files to
the cloud while also connecting the many ‘things’ around our home.
Max WiFi, based on 802.11ax, is designed from the bottom up to
address these evolving consumer needs. With the launch of the Max
WiFi ecosystem, Broadcom has yet again pioneered the generational
transition of Wi-Fi.”
Andrew Zignani, Senior Analyst, ABI
Research
“The 802.11ax Wi-Fi protocol is significant for users as it
functions in the critical 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands and adds OFDMA
while retaining backward compatibility with legacy protocols. The
Wi-Fi device and traffic explosion, higher density Wi-Fi
deployments, growing use of outdoor Wi-Fi, and the need to support
a great variety of different device types will require more
efficient Wi-Fi implementations that can help to deliver richer
experiences for enterprise and consumer applications that are
hungry for bandwidth.”
Bruno Zerbib, Chief Technology Officer,
Altice
“Providing best in class in home Wi-Fi is an essential part of
Altice's global service offering. Our subscriber's Broadband
experience begins and ends with the quality of Wi-Fi. The 802.11ax
standard will enable more services to be delivered to an ever
increasing number of Wi-Fi enabled devices in the connected home.
Altice is working closely with Broadcom to enable 802.11ax Wi-Fi in
our next generation of Broadband gateways and fixed ecosystem.”
Larry Robinson, President, ARRIS CPE
Products
“Advancement in the WLAN standards are critical to keep pace
with the reliable delivery of quadruple play services to an
increasing number of wireless connected devices in the home.
The 6th generation WLAN standard, 802.11ax, adopts many of the
established technologies from cellular standard such as LTE
enabling true “carrier grade” Wi-Fi. This will allow
service providers to provide their subscribers a best in class
wireless experience that matches the WAN speeds provided by state
of the art xDSL, DOCSIS and PON technologies. ARRIS is
partnering with Broadcom to bring 802.11ax technology to the latest
generation of Telco and Cable operator gateways.”
Alan Amrod, Senior Vice President, Aerohive Networks
Products Organization
“Today people expect to be connected to work, family, and
friends anywhere, anytime, and anyplace and a majority of that
connected time is over Wi-Fi. 802.11ax is the most efficient Wi-Fi
standard developed to date that can deliver the performance,
scalability, and capacity that elevates Wi-Fi to utility-grade in
today’s challenging enterprise environments.”
Tenlong Deng, GM of Networking &
Wireless Devices BU, ASUSTek Computer Inc.
"ASUS, the leader in high performance Wi-Fi routers, is excited
to once again work closely with Broadcom to develop products with
the most advanced and highest performance Wi-Fi technology.
ASUS products utilizing Broadcom's 802.11ax solution will be able
to deliver multi-gigabit wireless speeds and substantially better
coverage while allowing consumers to connect a higher number of
devices to their home network.”
Anny Wei, CEO, D-LINK
“D-LINK is working aggressively with Broadcom to bring the
advances of 802.11ax technology to our customers. With the 6th
generation of Wi-Fi, users can expect to connect more devices with
better reliability and faster speeds.”
Dr. Liu Yiping, VP and General Manager, Wireless
Business Unit, New H3C
“Enterprise networks are growing increasingly dense, making
802.11ax a much-needed technology for next-generation access
points. 802.11ax will greatly enhance capacity and coverage so
users will be able to stream video, download content quickly, and
not be hindered at times of high-traffic use.”
Dr. Amer Hassan, Senior Director, Office Communications
Service, Microsoft Corporation
“Emerging applications in video conferencing, holographic
imaging, and augmented reality require the highest quality
experiences and demand the highest performing wireless
networks. These are networks that have low latency, high
reliability and very high throughput. This generation of Wi-Fi
based on IEEE 802.11ax will meet the demands of these fast growing
markets and drive adoption by consumers and business
workers.”
Patrick Lo, CEO, NETGEAR
"As the worldwide leader in home networking solutions, NETGEAR
is partnering with Broadcom to deliver the benefits of 802.11ax
technology to our customers. With 802.11ax, consumers with multiple
wireless devices can expect lower latency gaming, more reliable
video streaming and faster sharing of files and photos."
Ahmed Selmani, CEO, Sagemcom Broadband
"The performance requirements for home Wi-Fi networks continue
to increase as the number of mobile, video, and IoT devices in the
home grow. Broadcom's implementation of the 802.11ax specification
will allow home Wi-Fi gateways to gracefully scale and meet the
very high performance needed to deliver traffic to many wireless
devices concurrently. Sagemcom is partnering with Broadcom to
integrate this important technology into our next generation
product portfolio.”
Gary Gutknecht, Senior Vice President, Technicolor
Connected Home
"Technicolor believes the advancements brought by 802.11ax Wi-Fi
technology are revolutionary for consumers. The adoption of
Broadcom's 802.11ax solutions across Technicolor's gateway
platforms, combined with the close collaboration between the two
companies, will enable substantial improvements in wireless
capacity, number of connected devices, speed, range, and quality of
service. This will allow our network service provider
customers to continue to deliver the highest quality in home Wi-Fi
experience, while lowering the total cost of ownership."
Andy Chen, Vice President, Networking BU &
International Sales, TP-LINK
"As consumer use of high-bandwidth applications increases,
best-in-class Wi-Fi routers will need to utilize 802.11ax
technology to support increases in throughput to more and more
devices. TP-Link is building a portfolio of products utilizing
Broadcom's MAX WiFi solution which will be designed to meet the
needs of the most demanding wireless use cases."
About Broadcom LimitedBroadcom Limited
(NASDAQ:AVGO) is a leading designer, developer and global supplier
of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity
solutions. Broadcom Limited’s extensive product portfolio
serves four primary end markets: wired infrastructure,
wireless communications, enterprise storage and industrial &
other. Applications for our products in these end markets include:
data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access,
telecommunications equipment, smartphones and base stations, data
center servers and storage, factory automation, power generation
and alternative energy systems, and displays. For more
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