MaxLinear unveils MxL31712 & MxL31708 Wi-Fi 7 chips for gateways, routers and access points

MaxLinear has unveiled its first Wi-Fi 7 SoCs with the MxL31712 and the MxL31708 single-chip options concentrating on service supplier gateways, Wi-Fi routers, and access points, and delivering greater than 70% increased tri-band throughput in comparison with Wi-Fi 6.

The MxL31712 goals on the premium 4×4 tri-band market with a throughput of as much as 18.6 Gbps and as much as 12 spatial streams, whereas the MxL31708 might be built-in into mid- to high-range 4×4 dual-band access points and gateways with a throughput of as much as 17 Gbps, and as much as 8 spatial streams.

MaxLinear MxL31712 and MxL31708 share the next options:

• Single-chip WFA Wi-Fi 7 R1 certifiable
• Based on IEEE 802.11be (aka WiFi 7 or Extremely High Throughput “EHT”) backward compliant to IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax WiFi 6
• Wi-Fi 7 features:
  • Bandwidth as much as 320MHz
  • 4096 QAM modulation
  • Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
  • Multi Resource Unit (MRU)
• Dedicated antenna for Zero Wait DFS (ZWDFS)
• Enhanced Network Efficiency
• Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD)
• Automatic Frequency Coordination (AFC) assist
• Fully offloaded Wi-Fi site visitors
• Coexistence assist for PAN radios
• Host Interface – PCIe Gen4

Both chips are optimized to interface with MaxLinear’s AnyWAN URX broadband SoCs and might be present in gateways with cable, fiber, copper, Ethernet, 2-Box (CNXSoft: unsure what that is…), and/or 5G FWA connectivity, in addition to Wi-Fi 7 routers, access points, extenders, repeaters, and mesh networking options.

Since the WiFi 7 chips are coprocessors there’s no details about software program assist, however we beforehand reported that MaxLinear’s AnyWAN URX SoC might run the Yocto-based prplOS (previously often known as prplWRT), RDK-B, or MaxLinear’s UGW (Universal Gateway Software) primarily based on OpenWrt.

MaxLinear MxL31712 and MxL31708 Wi-Fi 7 chips are on the pre-production stage with some samples accessible to chose companions, and mass manufacturing is scheduled to start out subsequent yr. More particulars may be discovered on the respective product pages and the press release.

Thanks to TLS for the tip.

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