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Belgacom (News - Alert), a Belgian broadband provider, will be delivering the new Bbox3 gateway to its customers, supporting multimedia broadband to multiple rooms without the need for wires.

The gateway is built by Sagemcom and runs on the 4x4 MIMO WLAN chipset.

“Our residential customers demand reliable voice, several high definition video streams, high-speed data services, as well as user-friendly features to easily associate their own devices, with the security settings,” Patrick Delcoigne, director of network innovation and engineering at Belgacom, said. “As we can replace the traditional powerline for distribution of the video to the TV decoders, the Quantenna solution offered the same reliability and quality as the wired technologies. This is exciting for us as it will enable us to roll the multi-screen services with low costs and give our customers great flexibility on where to place their TVs. We will use this powerful Quantenna solution in several of our new devices.”

Belgacom has been working with Sagemcom (News - Alert) since 2008 and the deployment of its Sagemcom Box 2. The Bbox 3 is a gateway between ADSL/VDSL2 and Wi-Fi, operating in the 5 GHZ band.

“Sagemcom has built a reputation for offering the industry’s highest-quality gateway networking products, and Quantenna 802.11 products enabled us to continue that tradition as we help service providers roll their multi-media multi-room wireless networks. This helps service providers lower their Opex and differentiate their services,” Ahmed Selmani, Deputy CEO and managing director of broadband and residential terminals BU of Sagemcom, said.

Quantenna designed the 802.11ac Wi-FI chipset used in the gateway, aiming for wireline performance over Wi-Fi networks.

“We are excited to be adding Belgacom to the list of the service providers that are deploying Quantenna solutions. Quantenna 4x4 Wi-Fi technology is replacing wired technologies like PLC or MoCA to deliver payTV and broadband services to multi-room deployments. Our 4x4 solutions have been chosen due to their wire-like quality and the coverage they provide,” said   Quantenna CEO Sam Heidari. “We value our relationship with Sagemcom and we look forward to further this partnership with our 802.11ac chipset.”

Sagemcom also offers the XMediusFax, which allows users to send faxes from a central server without the need for a physical fax machine.