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Akoustis Receives WiFi 6E Design Win for MU-MIMO Gateway Product from New Customer
This is the Fourth Design Win Akoustis has Received for its New Patented WiFi 6E XBAW FiltersNew Customer to Use Akoustis 5.5 GHz and 6.5 GHz Tandem WiFi 6E
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[{"type":"text","content":"This is the Fourth Design Win Akoustis has Received for its New Patented WiFi 6E XBAW FiltersNew Customer to Use Akoustis 5.5 GHz and 6.5 GHz Tandem WiFi 6E XBAW Filter Modules for 2X2 MU-MIMO Carrier Gateway ProductProduction Ramp Expected to Begin in the First Half of Calendar 2022 Charlotte, N.C., Nov. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or the “Company”), an integrated device manufacturer (IDM) of patented bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications, announced today that its patented XBAWTM filters are being designed into a new carrier-grade WiFi 6E gateway platform by a WiFi OEM. The new gateway design will use multiple Akoustis 5.5 GHz and 6.5 GHz XBAWTM coexistence filters for a tri-band multi-user, multiple-in-multiple-out (MU-MIMO) gateway product that will be part of carrier installed consumer premise equipment (CPE). The 5.5 GHz filter module covers the UNII 1-3 spectrum of the WiFi 6E standard, while the 6.5 GHz filter module covers the entire UNII 5-8 spectrum. Akoustis expects the customer to enter production of the new gateway in early calendar 2022, with production to ramp by mid-year. Dave Aichele, EVP of Business Development of Akoustis, stated, “We continue to add new WiFi 6E customers given the superior performance and selectivity of our leading XBAW™ filter solutions.” Mr. Aichele continued, “Our sales pipeline is growing across all of our major markets, led by WiFi 6E, and we expect new design wins to drive revenue growth in calendar 2022 and beyond.” In April 2020, the FCC announced the approval of 5.9 to 7.1 GHz for unlicensed use, which is the largest spectrum addition since the FCC allocated unlicensed spectrum for WiFi in 1989. The next generation of WiFi that is expected to use these new frequency bands is called WiFi 6E. This approval will create another significant new band, or combination of bands, over the next several years. Since the FCC’s April announcement, governments around the world have begun allocating the same or similar spectrum for future WiFi use. As spectrum is scarce, many nations are limited in the amount of new, available unlicensed spectrum above 6 GHz. This is driving great demand for high-performance coexistence filters that allow the use of all available spectrum. Akoustis is actively ...