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Combo chip handles both Wi-Fi 6 and AP+Bluetooth

January 9, 2019 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax combo chipMediaTek today announced its newest intelligent connectivity chipset to support the next generation of Wi-Fi technology — Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) — for home and enterprise wireless network services. It will support a range of products including wireless access points, routers, gateways and repeaters, bringing faster and more reliable connectivity throughout the smart home.

MediaTek’s Wi-Fi 6 chips support 2×2 and 4×4 which comply with the most updated standards. The Wi-Fi 6 chip also has a flexible architecture to support updated features when the Wi-Fi 6 specification is finalized later in 2019.

MediaTek’s Wi-Fi 6 ready chipset offers device makers several advantages based on the 802.11ax specification including:

  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA): Uplink and Downlink OFDMA increases efficiency and capacity of wireless network devices. It ensures bandwidth for voice, video, social network and gaming applications via download and uplink scheduling.
  • Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO): Increases channel capacity when servicing multiple devices that operate simultaneously.
  • Target Wake Time (TWT): Defines the specific times when clients wake and sleep enabling IoT devices to reduce power consumption and increase battery life.
  • Spatial Reuse: Allows access points to share channel capacity by making intelligent decisions on when to transmit data.

MediaTek also brings unique built-in solutions to its chipset along with meeting the newest Wi-Fi standard to improve the end-user experience. MediaTek’s connectivity technology, empowered with OFDMA, 1024QAM solves data traffic conflicts. It reschedules multi-user’s packets and provides a higher internet data rate so there is no lag while playing online games or streaming video.

It also delivers better concurrent performance between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with the latest Wi-Fi 6 access point + Bluetooth combo chip to guarantee spectrum efficiency when two radios work simultaneously.

MediaTek also supports and is leading the deployment of the Wi-Fi Alliance EasyMesh standard for extended Wi-Fi coverage. MediaTek’s family of smart home chipsets will be EasyMesh compatible. The new standard extends the Wi-Fi signal for total access in the home or even into the backyard.

MediaTek’s is currently the market-share leader of chips for the Wi-Fi AP solution.

Filed Under: Applications, Connectivity, microcontroller, Telecommunications, Wireless Tagged With: mediatek

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