NXP Semiconductors announced that it is laying the foundation for a new era of Wi-Fi 6 devices that can operate in the 6 GHz band with its new CW641 Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band System-on-Chip (SoC).
Withincreasing congestion in the legacy 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, the US FCC has approved 1.2 GHz of unlicensed spectrum for the 6 GHz band along with other regions around the world that will transform the Wi-Fi landscape.
NXP is introducing a Wi-Fi 6E device that will use this 6 GHz band and extend Wi-Fi capacity by bringing higher throughput, increased capacity, reliability and improved latency.
Designed for service provider access points and gateways, the CW641 unlocks higher speeds of over 4 Gbps and multi-user performance in the new 6 GHz band, providing greater capacity and lower latency, which greatly improves the Wi-Fi user experience.
Adding 6 GHzcapabilities to gateways gives service providers the options to efficiently divide the available bandwidth between devices to ensure an optimal user experience for a wide range of applications.
Mission-critical, high-bandwidth, low-latency applications such as mesh back haul and cloud gaming are ideal for migration to 6 GHz, freeing up the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands for other lower-bandwidth applications.
NXP's new Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E SoC enables you to take full advantage of the 6 GHz spectrum to boost the performance of home mesh networks, streaming high-resolution music and video, online gaming, video calling, digital downloads, data-intensive web content, and numerous other use cases.
In addition to access point applications, the CW641 SoC lays the foundation for high-performance Wi-Fi 6E applications in consumer, automotive, industrial and IoT environments.
Key features of the CW641 include:
- 4×4 Wi-Fi device with 4 spatial streams
- Supports 6 GHz, 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz operation
- Channel bandwidth 160/80/40/20MHz
- Peak PHY speed of 4.8 Gbps
- OFDMA uplink and downlink
- MU-MIMO uplink and downlink
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"NXP's Wi-Fi 6E chipset combines multi-gigabyte data rates, low latency and higher multi-user performance to meet customer demands for 6 GHz products that address the decades-long need for higher capacity required in today's wireless networking applications," said Head of Marketing for NXP Wireless Connectivity Solutions. "Asthe first 6E Wi-Fi SoC to support 6 GHz spectrum, the CW641 improves the overall Wi-Fi experience by making less congested airwaves available to routers and gateways for data-intensive multi-device applications. Our new chipset enables this new uncongested bandwidth, which will provide better performance with less interference for devices on the Wi-Fi 6E network."
"The increased availability of unlicensed 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi is the most exciting and transformative change in the Wi-Fi landscape in recent times, leading to much higher throughput, increased capacity, increased reliability and improved quality of service, all of which will help enable new wireless services by addressing the key challenges the technology currently faces," said Andrew Zignani, Principal Analyst at ABI Research. "However, to realize this potential, the Wi-Fi industry requires new Wi-Fi 6E chipsets that can effectively meet the varied demands of the market. Solutions such as NXP's latest CW641 Wi-Fi 6E chipset will play a key role in enabling the rollout of 6 GHz infrastructure, allowing a diverse ecosystem of end devices, applications and services to take advantage of this huge new opportunity for Wi-Fi."
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