Broadcom First to Ship Fully Compliant 802.11ax Wi-Fi Access Point SoC in Volume for World Wide Customer Deployments
06 Septembre 2018 - 10:00PM
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), today announced volume shipments
of its BCM43684 Max WiFi 802.11ax SoC, the first in the industry to
be fully compliant with the IEEE 802.11ax specification and the
upcoming 802.11ax certification. Designed for the residential
Wi-Fi market, Max WiFi chips are being deployed by NETGEAR with its
Nighthawk product line.
Broadcom’s Max WiFi is the sixth generation of
Wi-Fi and supports the delivery of simultaneous video, voice, data,
and IoT services to an ever increasing number of wireless devices
in the home. The BCM43684 delivers high-speed Wi-Fi simultaneously
to multiple devices in the home with unprecedented quality of
service. Max WiFi chips provide up to four times faster
download speeds, six times faster upload speeds, and with four
times better coverage than previous 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology.
“A little over one year ago Broadcom announced
availability of Max WiFi products and committed to bringing the
most advanced Wi-Fi technology ever implemented to consumers,” said
Greg Fischer, senior vice president and general manager, Broadband
Carrier Access, Broadcom. “Broadcom’s close collaboration with
NETGEAR to enable 802.11ax-based Nighthawk routers will provide
consumers with best-in-class Wi-Fi performance delivered using the
very latest technology.”
“As the leader in home networking solutions,
NETGEAR is proud to announce our commitment to bring Broadcom’s Max
WiFi technology to market,” said David Henry, senior vice president
of Connected Home Products at NETGEAR. “By combining the Broadcom
BCM43684 SoC with the engineering proficiency of NETGEAR, our
customers will gain unmatched reliability for video streaming,
lower latency for gaming, and faster sharing of files and
photos.”
Please visit the Broadcom Wireless LAN Infrastructure page for
more information about the Broadcom BCM43684 and other 802.11ax Max
WiFi products.
For more information about NETGEAR’s family of Nighthawk
solutions, please visit https://www.Netgear.com/AX-WIFI.
About Broadcom Broadcom
Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is a leading designer, developer and global
supplier of a broad range of digital and analog semiconductor
connectivity solutions. Broadcom Inc.’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, set-top box, broadband
access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones and base
stations, data center servers and storage, factory automation,
power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic
displays. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.
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