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Quantenna Communications, a developer of silicon for intelligent wireless networking, has launched the world’s first wireless chipsets that deliver guaranteed bandwidth for high speed wireless networking.

 

The fully integrated 802.11n chipsets with 4x4 MIMO and transmit beamforming are designed to deliver guaranteed wireless bandwidth within any home, anywhere.

 

The Quantenna High Speed (QHS) family of chipsets pioneers a new level of ultra reliability for delivering high-definition (HD) multimedia content over wireless networks.

The new Quantenna chipsets — QHS1000, QHS600 and QHS450 — overcome interference and dead zones, enabling consumers and carriers to reliably deploy wireless HD, HDTV and IPTV (News - Alert) services, to any point in the home over a plug-and-play wireless network.

 

The QHS chipsets bring together a variety of technologies in a standards-compliant 802.11n solution. Quantenna designed its chipsets to meet the demands of the rapidly growing wireless local area network (WLAN) market. Network equipment and consumer electronics manufacturers demand for WiFi chipsets is expected to reach about $6 billion with 938 million units by 2012, according to market research from In-Stat (News - Alert).

 

"Our unique combination of cutting-edge 4x4 MIMO and Tx beamforming on the smallest footprint positions Quantenna in the forefront of the highly competitive WiFi (News - Alert) chip market," said Dr. Behrooz Rezvani, Quantenna's founder and CEO, in a statement. "Through years of development and careful consideration of the challenges that have previously impeded ultra reliable wireless bandwidth, we can now enable our customers to meet the most demanding consumer challenges today, which is guaranteeing bandwidth."

 

Quantenna will begin sampling its QHS family of chipsets with top-tier customers in both the retail and carrier markets in Q4 2008.

 

Quantenna Communications, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company developing next-generation chipsets that deliver performance, speed and reliability for wireless networks and devices.

 

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Quantenna has assembled a management and engineering team with a long track record of start-up success, and is backed by some of Silicon Valley's most esteemed venture capital firms, including Grazia Equity, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Sigma Partners and Venrock Associates.

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