Quantenna Launches First 1 Gbps Wi-Fi Chipsets

Finally the most frustrating aspects of using a Wi-Fi network such as deadspots, limited range and unpredictable bandwidths within the home or office can be overcome.

Sunnyvale, California -/Wi-Fi Technology News/- Quantenna Communications, after two years of intensive development and testing, today announced the Quantenna High Speed (QHS) family of chipsets to overcome the quality and reliability issues that traditionally beset Wi-Fi networks. The ability of Quantenna chips to guarantee wireless bandwidth means that carriers can now deliver multi-play services including HDTV over a wireless network to anywhere in the home.

QHS chipsets are designed for Wi-Fi access points as well as networking equipment and consumer electronics. Quantenna’s tiny footprint – it’s the size of a book of matches - will appeal to manufacturers designing smaller consumer electronics products from DVRs, plasma TVs and games consoles to small access points/routers.

Until now, wireless home and enterprise networks around the world have suffered from dead zones, unreliable bandwidth with poor coverage and signal interference. Existing 802.11 chips are suitable for data transmission, but not sufficiently robust to support video, HDTV or IPTV. Equipment vendors have had to settle for “best effort” configurations, building multiple chips into gateways and access points, enlarging the device footprint and driving up costs…yet still not achieving guaranteed bandwidths.

QHS chipsets are the world’s first fully integrated Wi-Fi 802.11a/n/g/n chipsets with 4x4 MIMO and transmit beamforming. They are the first to be able to guarantee wireless bandwidth. Based on standards-compliant 802.11n technology to overcome interference and dead zones, QHS chipsets are designed to meet the demands of the rapidly growing plug-and-play wireless market.

Quantenna’s target market represent a potential market of about $6 billion for wireless LAN chipsets with 938 million units by 2012, according to market research from In-Stat.

“With this announcement, Quantenna has taken a major leap forward in wireless LAN chipset architecture, throughput and reliability,” said Craig Mathias, a principal at the mobile and wireless advisory firm Farpoint Group. “I’m very impressed with the flexibility and configurability of their offering, which make it appropriate to a broad range of applications. In a highly-competitive market where performance and innovation are vital, Quantenna has staked out an impressive position.”

“Highly reliable wireless bandwidth is exactly what carriers are looking for,” said Corrado Rocca, senior vice president of Product Marketing and Development at Pirelli Broadband Solutions S.p.A, the Pirelli Group company specializing in broadband access technologies. “It eliminates the need for home rewiring and allows for seamless HDTV and ‘multiple play’ wireless connectivity, while enabling complete home coverage. The combination of advanced MIMO features, such as 4x4 radio, transmit beam forming, vector mesh networking and concurrent dual bands are all critical elements required to achieve an ultra reliable, high speed.”

Dr. Behrooz Rezvani, Quantenna’s founder and CEO, said: “Everyone knows the problems Wi-Fi users face every day yet no-one could figure out a way to solve them. The thin walls in Japanese buildings, for example, lead to excessive interference; the thick walls of Europe cause signal loss. Quantenna was set up specifically to solve these problems and today is the culmination of two years of hard work.”

The QHS family consists of:

· QHS1000 – up to 1 Gbps link speed and 600 Mbps data throughput.

· QHS600 – up to 600 Mbps link speed and 400 Mbps data throughput.

· QHS450 – up to 450 Mbps link speed and 200 Mbps data throughput.

The QHS chipsets are the first in the industry to bring together the following technologies in a standards-compliant 802.11 a/b/g/n chipset. They solve several reliability problems at once, where others just address one or two at a time:

·4x4 MIMO radio/antenna - Offers the highest possible reliability in high-interference conditions.

·Transmit Beamforming - Enables the chip to locate receiving devices and focus the signal on them, improving clarity and coverage while conserving power.

·Concurrent dual band - Supports real-time video transmission via the 5 Ghz band and data over the 2.4 Ghz band.

·Vector Mesh networking - Guarantees total coverage in any size home using adaptive vector mesh routing.

·Highest Integration - integrates high efficiency power amplifiers (PAs) with 18 dBm output power along with LNA, VGA, switches, baluns and diplexers that constitute a front-end module.

Quantenna’s solutions also include QHS plug, a reference system that OEMs can use to produce wireless networking solutions that can be plugged into any power outlet.

Quantenna will begin sampling its QHS family of chipsets with top-tier customers in both the retail and carrier markets in Q4 2008. Pricing is available upon request.

About Quantenna Communications, Inc.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Quantenna has assembled a world-class team and is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s most esteemed venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, and Venrock Associates, along with Europe’s Grazia Equity. For additional information, please visit http://www.quantenna.com