Chipset 'turbocharges' home networking performance

24th October 2013

Lantiq

Staff Reporter

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At the Broadband World Forum Show, Lantiq unveiled the latest additions to its AnyWAN VDSL2 and Ethernet Home Gateway chipset family. The new additions to the AnyWAN VDSL2 and Ethernet Home Gateway chipset family feature the GRX330 communications processor, which uses a dedicated acceleration engine to maximize 802.11ac Wi-Fi throughput while keeping the CPU available for other tasks.

Featuring multiple smart offloading engines, Lantiq's GRX processors are 'turbocharged'. This integrated processing technology ensures that networking traffic is processed outside the CPU, with this smart approach resulting to zero percent load on the networking processor while operating DSL and Ethernet WAN uplinks.

This new Lantiq GRX330 processor also serves as an introduction to DirectLink, a packet processing engine optimized for 802.11ac. This allows data transmission at the maximum 802.11ac network data rate without any significant load on the CPU. The GRX330 supports full 802.11ac Wi-Fi data traffic with only one twentieth of the CPU horsepower requirements of competitors’ Gateway processors.

Lantiq's Dirk Wieberneit commented, “Lantiq’s unique, lean and smart offloading technologies allow network processing of nearly all data traffic outside of the main CPU. This is substantially different than the typical approach to handle increased network traffic by driving up CPU clock speed, which wastes power and can lead to sub-optimal performance. Our family of smart communications processors ultimately allows customers to more cost-effectively offer value-add services.”

Lantiq’s new GRX330 communication processor will be available in production quantities in the first quarter of 2014.