LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - October 17, 2016) - Broadband World Forum 2016 -- Quantenna Communications, a leader in ultra-high performance Wi-Fi, today announced the industry's first 802.11ax Wi-Fi chipset, the QSR10G-AX. This product is built on Quantenna's QSR10G Wave 3 802.11ac Wi-Fi platform and adds support for the draft 1.0 of the IEEE specification 802.11ax standard.

As Wi-Fi usage continues to grow, the Wi-Fi 802.11 IEEE standard evolves to cope with the augmented complexity of Wi-Fi networks. 802.11ax was designed with the goal of increasing Wi-Fi networks' efficiency in dense deployments such as multi-dwelling units. In addition, it improves Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi industry by announcing the world's first 802.11ax Access Point solution. The QSR10G-AX solution will support 12 total streams: 8 streams in the 5GHz band and 4 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 Wi-Fi industry leadership by being the first to announce an 802.11ax compliant solution."

"Quantenna is launching another leading-edge Wi-Fi 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 Inc. "This innovative access technology will allow our powerful processor solutions to deliver new levels of performance, scalability and capacity."