By Claus Hetting, Wi-Fi NOW CEO & Chairman
Cambium Networks releases its first Wi-Fi 7 AP
While the largest AP vendors in the world still haven’t released a Wi-Fi 7 AP, most of the smaller ones have – now including Cambium Networks. Last week the company released the X7-35X Wi-Fi 7 indoor AP, which is a tri-band, tri-radio, 2+2+2 configuration enterprise-grade AP powered by Qualcomm’s Networking Pro-series chipset.
The new AP supports all the signature Wi-Fi 7 features and delivers 9.2 Gbps of aggregate data rate. Cambium calls this ‘the first in a new class of Wi-Fi 7 solutions’ and says the new solution offers ‘a very attractive Wi-Fi 7 price-to-performance ratio’. View the unboxing video here. We will have more to say about Cambium’s first venture into Wi-Fi 7 shortly.
TIP graduates Open AFC software group, code now available on GitHub
The Telecom Infra Project last week ‘graduated’ their Open AFC software group (which is TIP speak for the group evolving to become the ‘Open AFC Project’, TIP says here) and the code for Open AFC is now available on GitHub here, the organisation says. All of Wi-Fi Alliance Services, the Wireless Broadband Alliance, and Broadcom are currently using the Open AFC solution and all the same companies have been approved as AFC service providers by the FCC. TIP says the Open AFC Project “established by Broadcom, Cisco, CableLabs, Wi-Fi Alliance Services, and Wireless Broadband Alliance, is committed to working with the open source community to enhance the code base, implement new standards when appropriate, and expand Open AFC to cover new markets.”
Denmark-based Icotera selects Qualcomm for Wi-Fi 7 gateways
After having been a faithful Quantenna client for years, Denmark-based Icotera has now selected Qualcomm as its Wi-Fi chipset provider for its new and still to be released portfolio of Wi-Fi 7 products, the company said in a press release earlier this month. Icotera calls the selection ‘strategic’ and says “the new product line will empower ISPs to offer multi-gigabit Wi-Fi solutions, delivering faster speeds, reduced interference, increased capacity, and enhanced performance to support future high-bandwidth activities.” Telenor Sweden is one of Icotera’s current Wi-Fi 6 gateway clients.
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