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Today Aruba launched their first 802.11ax access points, the 510 Series. The 'AI-powered' AP's uses 4x4 MIMO on 5 GHz and 2x2 MIMO on 2.4 GHz and contains Bluetooth 5 and Zigbee (802.15.4) radio's. 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet and 802.3at PoE are supported. There are two variants: AP-514: External...

Calix launched two new Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) routers, the GigaSpire MAX and GigaSpire BLAST. Both feature 8x8 MIMO @ 5 GHz and 4x4 MIMO@ 2.4 GHz with 802.11ax support and two 1 GbE ports (1 LAN and 1 WAN). The MAX adds Universal IoT (Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee 3.0 & Z-Wave Pro) and built-in Alexa...

Jeff Baumgartner from Light Reading spotted a new Docsis 3.1 modem from Arris with Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and EasyMesh on the Cable-Tec Expo in Atlanta. The device, named Touchstone mAX, contains two 802.11ax 4x4 radio's, one on 2,4 GHz and one for 5 GHz, along with a single 2,5 GbE port, two 1...

Quantenna and Cortina today announced that they teamed up to deliver reference designs for Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) routers and GPON gateways based on Quantenna's Wi-Fi 6 chips, the QSR10GU-AX Plus and QSR5GU-AX Plus, and Cortina's network processors, the Cortina CA7742 and Cortina CA8279.

Broadcom introduced two news Wi-Fi 6 SoC's aimed mainly at repeaters and Mesh nodes. The BCM6752 contains a triple-core CPU, 2x2 802.11ax radio and dual gigabit ethernet ports in a single package, while the BCM6755 had a quad-core CPU, two 2x2 802.11ax radio's and a single gigabit ethernet port...

Today Broadcom introduced the BCM63178, a SoC that combines a VDSL Profile 35b, also known as VPlus, modem, and a 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax radio. It contains a 1.5 GHz multi-core CPU (8.5k DMIPS) and can be combined with Broadcom's BCM43684 802.11ax WLAN chipset. The chipset family is sampling...

Asus RT-AX88U Experiences & Discussion Preface The Asus RT-AX88U is the first router to support the 802.11ax draft specification, also known as Wi-Fi 6. The router is very similar to the RT-AC88U but has new radios and a new quad-core processor. The antenna's and 8 gigabit ethernet ports have...

According to Tech Insights the new iPhones use a Broadcom BCM4377 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth wireless combo SoC. The BCM4377 is not publicly listed, and probably custom made for Apple. The closest related however is the BCM4375, also a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo chip. And it supports 802.11ax (recently branded...

On Intel's Technical Libary two new wireless network adapters appeared, the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (with code name Cyclone Peak 2) and the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (with code name Harrison Peak 2). Previously, we saw the Intel Wireless-AX 22260 (22260NGW) with code name Cyclone Peak and the Intel...

Asus RT-AX88U Delivery times & prices It looks like the Asus RT-AX88U is the first draft-802.11ax router that will be available on the consumer market. This topic is only about the delivery times & prices of the Asus RT-AX88U: Where to get it the cheapest and the fastest. If you want to...