802.11ac chipset up to 1.7Gbps

A company called Quantenna Communications announced that it will supply the market with the first 802.11ac chip and name it QSR1000. The chip's peak transmission speed can reach 1.7Gbps at the fastest, 400Mbps faster than the current 802.11ac router.

The secret of speed improvement is that the QSR1000 supports the new 4x4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac standard, which means that it is different from the "single-stream," "shuangliu," and "three-stream" devices that are common on the market. It is the first support for "four streams." "Quad-stream" WiFi chipset.

Quantenna stated that the QSR1000 chipset supports the latest Wave 2 802.11ac specification and combines multi-user MIMO technology (MU-MIMO) and Dynamic Digital Beamforming to support 4 spatial streams to provide faster bandwidth , speed and better signal stability, the future of wireless streaming media used in 4K Ultra HD content will have great benefits.

Despite being "noble" to improve, this set of chips is not "cool" - the QSR1000 802.11ac chip supports the existing Wi-Fi standard downwards, but it must support 4x4 configuration to get 1.7 Gbps of data Transmission rate. The current QSR1000 chip is still in the sample stage and terminal equipment will not be available until the end of this year.

Founded in 2006, Quantenna Communications, based in Wellington, California, focuses on developing wireless semiconductor solutions that focus on home wireless Internet and WIFi. The integrated and standards-based 802.11n/Wi-Fi chipset developed by Quantenna uses 4x4 multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) technology and dynamic digital bundling technology. These chipsets bring extremely high WiFi performance. In addition, this group of chips can also meet the needs of users to use the WiFi network to deliver high-definition content while satisfying greater coverage.

The world-renowned market research organization Strategy Analytics recently released the latest research report "Embedded Wi-Fi Consumer Electronics Terminal Global Market Forecast" shows that the next-generation 802.11ac standard will develop rapidly in the next five years, and the consumer electronics industry is also ready to Preparing for this standard transition, some consumer electronics companies will also launch new terminals that support this technology standard.

It is estimated that by the end of 2015, the sales volume of 802.11ac-enabled WiFi consumer electronic devices (including routers and gateways) will exceed one billion units, equivalent to more than 40% of all WiFi-enabled terminals. The report also predicts that global WiFi-enabled consumer electronics terminals will continue to maintain double-digit growth, with total sales reaching 2.8 billion units by 2017.

Jia Wu, Director of Strategy Analytics Connected Home Terminal Services, said:

"WiFi technology continues to advance. We expect the industry to transition to the 802.11ac standard much faster than the previous transition to the 802.11n standard. Now consumers have a more complete understanding of the capabilities and benefits of WiFi, similar to 3G. In the transition to LTE, once the consumer electronics industry begins to fully adopt the 802.11ac standard, consumers will easily accept it."

Analyst Eric Smith added: “Although we are very optimistic about the growth prospects of 802.11ac, we still need to remove the related barriers before consumers can fully enjoy the benefits of the WiFi evolution.”

The organization will begin certifying products that support the 802.11ac standard in June this year.