LAS VEGAS—Although range, power, and quality of service are equally important when considering the purchase of a new router, speed sells. And chipset vendor Quantenna claims to be the foundation of one of the fastest new routers on the market, the Asus RT-AC87U.
At CES 2014 here, Quantenna announced it had begun shipping the QSR1000, a 4x4 802.11ac chipset that the company originally announced in May. Quantenna claims to be first among the "Wave 2" generation of 802.11ac routers. Mimosa will also incorporate the QSR1000 in a new line of outdoor wireless products, and ViXS will build in the chipset into its XCode 6400 reference design for Ultra HD decoding and encoding.
Why should you care about "Wave 2" 802.11ac? The IEEE, responsible for deploying 802.11ac, planned to roll it out in two phases, "Wave 1," the first generation of 802.11ac wireless devices, and "Wave 2".
What you should know
One of the key attributes of the Wave 2 generation of 802.11ac is the ability to stream multiple streams (typically either 3 or 4) to multiple clients, instead of directing all of the routers' multiple data streams to a single user (which can span multiple antennas).
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