Quantenna Redefines Wireless Home Networking at CES 2010 With First Full-11n™ 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi Product Offering
Quantenna Showcases First 4x4 MIMO 802.11n Products That Deliver Multiple Full High-Definition (HD) Video Streams with 1080p Quality
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, - 2010 International CES - January 7, 2010 - Quantenna Communications, Inc., a leader in ultra-reliable Wi-Fi networking for whole-home entertainment, today announced it will be showcasing at CES 2010 the first wireless home networking chipsets that incorporate the entire range of Full-11n Wi-Fi features that are necessary to deliver multiple full HD video streams with 1080p quality anywhere in the home, while maintaining compatibility with existing 802.11n products.
Quantenna will be demonstrating a variety of advanced wireless home-networking capabilities during CES in its private suite at the Las Vegas Hilton, immediately adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). These demonstrations include:
- Retail Access Points: Quantenna is demonstrating the equivalent quality between direct HDMI video streams and those transmitted as H.264-encoded video over a Quantenna-enabled 802.11n wireless network.
- Carrier IPTV services: Quantenna will show a wireless video residential gateway delivering the quality consumers expect with the rock-solid reliability that carriers demand.
- DLNA applications: Quantenna’s products will support DLNA’s emerging guidelines for certified products that can work together, no matter the brand. These guidelines include UPnP Audio/Video (AV) technology that will enable users to manage and control content across the home network.
- Mesh Networking: Quantenna is demonstrating how total coverage can be guaranteed in any size home by using adaptive vector mesh routing to help distribute the wireless signal more effectively and deal with potential in-home interference including fluorescent lights, home appliances and signal-blocking walls.
Quantenna’s Full-11n™ solutions incorporate the most advanced 802.11n features including 4x4 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), dynamic digital beamforming, mesh networking and channel monitoring and optimization. These Full-11n features work together to deliver up to 25 dB performance improvement as compared to earlier WLAN technology, enabling five times the coverage of previous 802.11n solutions while still interoperating with them. Quantenna solutions supports multiple concurrent video streams of ultra-low-latency H.264 for Blu-ray™ quality video, across more than 200-foot distances, with optimal video quality thanks to near-zero packet error rates. They also minimize system latencies for real-time applications such as online bidirectional video-game controllers, and can operate in point-to-multipoint mode.
Quantenna products also ensure content and privacy security without compromising performance by using an integrated digital signal processing (DSP) engine for higher-layer security acceleration. Other features ensure ultra-simplified setup and security pre-configuration with single-touch Wi-Fi Protected Setup. Quantenna’s highly integrated devices reduce size and bill of materials (BOM) cost for devices ranging from wireless video bridges to triple-play home gateways, and their ultra-high reliability minimizes retail product returns and carrier technical support for service subscribers.
“Quantenna is excited to be showing CES attendees how Full-11n wireless networking can supercharge existing Wi-Fi networks so that they can deliver multiple flawless video streams with full HD quality, to any room in the home,” said David French, Quantenna’s CEO. “We are helping to create a wonderful new world of wireless products and services that will enable consumers to watch movies, listen to music, play games and share files with the same quality and reliability as wired Ethernet or HDMI cable connections.”
About Quantenna Communications, Inc.
Quantenna Communications, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company developing next-generation Full-11n™ chipsets that deliver the highest levels of performance and reliability for wireless networks and devices. Headquartered in Fremont, Calif., Quantenna introduced the world’s first Full-802.11n solutions for wireless entertainment networking, and has assembled a management and engineering team with a long track record of start-up success. The company is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s most esteemed venture capital firms, including Grazia Equity, Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, Southern Cross, and Venrock Associates.