Qualcomm unveils new reference design for wireless routers and gateways

Telecom Lead Asia: At COMPUTEX TAIPEI, Qualcomm
Atheros unveiled the new QCA9005AP 802.11ac reference design for wireless
routers, gateways and enterprise access points.

 

The 802.11ac platform features the QCA9558 dual-band,
3-stream 802.11n system-on-chip (SoC), the QCA9880 3-stream 802.11ac radio
solution, and the AR8327 Gigabit Ethernet switch. It uses an on-board processor
and power efficient radio architecture and can accelerate mainstream adoption
of Gigabit wireless products for home and business networks.

 

This dual-band platform will help drive the market
transition to the latest Wi-Fi technology and enable customers to deliver home
routers, carrier gateways and enterprise access points (APs) in time for the
first wave of 802.11ac certification, which the Wi-Fi Alliance has scheduled
for the first quarter of 2013.

 

“Earlier this year, Qualcomm Atheros led the
802.11ac transition with the industry’s first 802.11ac multi-connectivity chip
for mobile devices. We are now driving the propagation of mainstream Gigabit
networking solutions with a new, highly efficient, dual-band 802.11ac
platform,” said Dan Rabinovitsj, senior vice president and general
manager, networking business unit, Qualcomm Atheros.

 

 “With this
flexible and efficient networking platform, Qualcomm Atheros is delivering
solutions for the entire ecosystem of networked devices and ensuring a smooth
migration to Gigabit-capable Wi-Fi,” Rabinovitsj added.

 

Qualcomm Atheros’ entire family of 802.11ac solutions was
designed with on-board processors and hardware acceleration to offload Wi-Fi
processing from the host CPU. This architectural advantage enables highly
efficient Gigabit wireless performance without the use of costly, power-hungry,
Gigabit-class processors.

 

By pairing the QCA9880 802.11ac radio with the QCA9558
802.11n SoC, networking OEMs can build cost-effective and power-efficient
802.11ac-enabled products that are capable of aggregate PHY rates of up to 1.7
Gbps.

 

Qualcomm Atheros’ highly integrated 802.11ac solutions
are sampling now to customers in North America, Europe, China, Korea and Japan,
and they are expected to ship in volume the second half of 2012.

 

Qualcomm
and Microsoft to build advanced classroom with 3G Smartphones in Singapore

Qualcomm, via its Wireless Reach initiative, Microsoft
and Nan Chiau Primary School recently unveiled the WE Learn mobile education
project. The project will use 3G smartphones to create a 21st century classroom
experience for students in Singapore.

 

editor@telecomlead.com

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