AVM selects Lantiq VDSL SoC for FRITZ!Box 7490 VDSL2 gateway

The FRITZ!Box 7490 also achieves outstanding gigabit routing performance with minimum CPU load, due to the unique Lantiq smart acceleration engine.

Peter Faxel, Executive Vice President Products & Technology, AVM, commented: "Lantiq offers high-class technology that perfectly fits the performance needs of our top models. This way, our customers enjoy the benefits of excellent quality of service for their broadband connections. Our work with Lantiq’s VDSL/ADSL solutions allows us to deliver high-end VDSL Gateways with outstanding Gigabit routing performance."

"We are delighted to partner with AVM and ship our ultra-fast VRX VDSL chipset family for their new flagship product FRITZ!Box 7490. Lantiq has a long history in DSL and we are enabling our customers to offer vectoring standard compliant VDSL Gateways with unparalleled routing throughput and a future-proof architecture. All Lantiq equipped boxes in the field can be made fully compliant with the latest VDSL Vectoring standard via simple Firmware download," comments Dirk Wieberneit, Lantiq Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Customer Premises Equipment Business Unit.

Highlights and benefits:

• The Lantiq ITU-T standard compliant VDSL Vectoring solutions enable carriers to deliver up to 150 Mbits access speeds, while Physical Layer Retransmission achieves the highest possible Quality of Service for media content,
• The Lantiq VRX VDSL SoC offloads data handling of the 802.11ac Wi-Fi subsystem and features and hardware acceleration for Gbit speed home networking with minimum load on the main CPU.

Availability

Lantiq is shipping its VRX Family in high volumes and the FRITZ!Box 7490 is already commercially available.