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MaxLinear Boosts its Gateway & Access Platform with Wi-Fi 7 Family of SoCs
World’s first single-chip Wi-Fi 7 solution with 12 spatial streams delivering optimal Multi-Link experience CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MaxLinear
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nWorld’s first single-chip Wi-Fi 7 solution with 12 spatial streams delivering optimal Multi-Link experience\n\n\n CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nMaxLinear Inc. (NASDAQ: MXL) today announced the seventh generation of its Wi-Fi SoC solution targeting service provider gateways, Wi-Fi routers, and access points. The highly-integrated Wi-Fi 7 family of chips offers an industry-first single-SoC solution that delivers more than 70% higher tri-band throughput verses Wi-Fi 6. The chips are currently sampling to selected partners and MaxLinear-enabled products are expected in 2023.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221018005583/en/MaxLinear's Single-Chip Wi-Fi 7 Solution (Graphic: Business Wire)\n“Our Wi-Fi 7 single-chip solution enables fast, robust, and reliable connectivity elevating the user experience,” said Will Torgerson, vice president and general manager, Broadband group for MaxLinear. “We help our partners reduce complexity, drive form-factor innovation, and spend less time designing next generation gateways, routers and access points.”\n\nWi-Fi 7 - also called Extremely High Throughput (EHT) - is one of the most significant Wi-Fi upgrades to date. Built on the IEEE 802.11be standard, it delivers 11.5Gbps of peak throughput on the 6GHz spectrum. This makes the throughput more than twice as fast as the previous generation, Wi-Fi 6. This increase is accomplished by doubling the bandwidth to 320MHz and enhancing the modulation to 4096 QAM.\n\nMaking the untethered experience more robust, Multi-Link Operation (MLO) is another marquee Wi-Fi 7 feature which enables channel aggregation to deliver lower latency and higher throughput in congested environments.\n\nMaxLinear Wi-Fi 7 advantages include:\n\n\nLowers total system cost and development time: Single chip reduces total Bill of Material (BOM) and board complexity, with less time spent on thermal, mechanical, and PCB designs. Single chip also drives smaller form-factor which enables system integrators to build more elegant product designs.\n\n\nProvides seamless, coordinated view of multi-bands for optimal MLO experience: Single chip has one coordinated view of data flows across multiple channels in dual- and tri-band configurations for faster recovery from retransmissions during interference. Thi...