World's first 802.11ax WiFi solution

As WiFi usage continues to grow, the WiFi 802.11 IEEE standard evolves to cope with the augmented complexity of WiFi networks. 802.11ax was designed with the goal of increasing WiFi networks efficiency in dense deployments such as multi-dwelling units.

In addition, it improves WiFi network capacity and performance in terms of its ability to support more simultaneous clients. Lastly, 802.11ax provides increased speed over 802.11ac. All of these improvements are helpful for businesses, public venues, and also in homes where the number of clients continues to grow due to the proliferation of mobile and Internet of Things devices.

Quantenna continues to lead the WiFi industry by announcing the world's first 802.11ax Access Point solution. The QSR10G-AX solution will support 12 total streams: eight streams in the 5GHz band and four streams in the 2.4GHz band.

QSR10G-AX adds support for downlink and uplink OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access), providing superior network efficiency in dense environments as well as high uplink performance. OFDMA dedicates different sub-carriers for individual client devices. This allows multiple devices to be simultaneously served.

QSR10G-AX is designed to enable a very easy and fast transition for existing QSR10G customers. The QSR10G-AX chipset is pin-to-pin compatible with QSR10G, Quantenna's Wave 3 12-stream dual-band 802.11ac and 802.11n access point solution. As a result, customers designing with QSR10G solution will be able to drop in the new QSR10G-AX solution.

"Innovation is what drives us at Quantenna," said Dr. Sam Heidari, Chairman and CEO at Quantenna. "We were the first company to deliver 4x4 802.11n, 4x4 802.11ac and 8x8 802.11ac. Now, we are proud to continue our WiFi industry leadership by being the first to announce an 802.11ax compliant solution."

"Quantenna is launching another leading-edge WiFi solution to the market. 802.11ax represents the next evolution of Wi-Fi and increases throughput and capacity needs for our end markets," said Venkat Sundaresan, Director of Product Management, Cavium. "This innovative access technology will allow our powerful processor solutions to deliver new levels of performance, scalability and capacity."

"Quantenna has once again demonstrated its pioneering innovation and leadership in the WiFi market with the announcement of the QSR10G-AX," said Andrea Goldsmith, Stephen Harris Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Goldsmith added: "This technology, which incorporates the 802.11ax protocol, is a leap forward for WiFi through the access technique of OFDMA. The more flexible, efficient, and adaptive use of the WiFi spectrum enabled by OFDMA will increase the data rates of the QSR10G-AX over current products, while also supporting in a reliable and scalable manner the growth of client devices in dense deployments. The transformative technology of the QSR10G-AX will be beneficial for high-performance WiFi devices as well as emerging applications in the IoT."