CEVA Announces Industry’s First 802.11ax Wi-Fi IPs

RivieraWaves Wi-Fi IP portfolio extended with RW-AX family of 802.11ax solutions, addressing client devices, smart home and infrastructure

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CEVA Inc. has unveiled its new RivieraWaves RW-AX family of 802.11ax Wi-Fi intellectual property (IP), targeting client devices, the smart home and network infrastructure. Building on its market leadership in Wi-Fi IP, CEVA is the first company to offer licensable 802.11ax solutions, providing its customers with a comprehensive platform to integrate the latest Wi-Fi standard into their next-generation product designs.

“We are already seeing a growing demand for 802.11ax, for both high-performance access points and low-power IoT applications,” said Aviv Malinovitch, VP and GM of connectivity business unit at CEVA. “We are proud to offer our customers the most efficient 802.11ax IP solutions, extending the low-power and high-performance RivieraWaves Wi-Fi family.”

With the proliferation of smartphones, over-the-top boxes and smart home devices which rely on Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi spectrum has become increasingly congested. This leads to below-par service and reduced bandwidth for users, particularly in dense environments.

Wi-Fi 802.11ax not only provides 25 percent data rate improvements over 802.11ac, but also much-needed innovations to aid spectrum efficiency and network capacity. These include the use of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) for bandwidth sharing and uplink Multi-User MIMO capabilities for more symmetrical data loads.

Moreover, with the addition of other new features such as wake-time scheduling, this latest generation of Wi-Fi also addresses the needs of IoT and low power devices, offering greater efficiency and lower power consumption. As a result, 802.11ax in a slim 1x1 configuration is an ideal future-proofing replacement for 802.11n in ultra-low power IoT devices.



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