Celeno and Realtek Debut a Joint Solution for Wi-Fi 6/6E Enabled Fiber Gateways
January 26, 2021 at 08:00 am
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Celeno Communications announced a collaboration with Realtek for a high performance reference design for 2.5Gbps gateways. The joint solution brings together Celeno's latest Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz band) silicon, and Realtek's RTL9607DA PON ONU Gateway Processor to provide a reference platform for next generation fiber access products. The platform delivers improved Wi-Fi performance, range and reliability essential in today's highly dense environments. The Celeno CL8000 family features high-performance, highly integrated Wi-Fi 6/6E (802.11ax R2) PCIe chip solutions based on advanced 14nm geometry to offer a low power and cost-effective architecture. The CL8000 architecture packs two Wi-Fi 6/6E access point radios into a single 11x11 BGA package and utilizes only one PCIe gen 3.0 interface. The CL8080 chip can deliver up to 6Gbps of speed and 8 radio chains, 4x4 2.4GHz and 4x4 5GHz, over a dual lane PCIe interface. The unique single chip architecture with dual transceivers provides a cost-effective Tri-Band solution with an advanced feature set. With the Celeno Wi-Fi solution, combining the CL8080 and CL8066 chips utilizes only two PCIe interfaces and can support a total of 14 radio chains with flexible MIMO assignments, enabling for example a Tri-Band solution supporting 4x4 MIMO on each band (2.4, 5, 6 GHz) plus a dedicated 4th listening radio utilizing up to two receive radio chains to enable parallel spectrum analysis, Zero-Wait-DFS, Zero-Wait-CAC, beacon analysis and packet sniffing for fast and efficient spectrum scanning and channel characterization. Service providers can improve their overall network performance and management capabilities to respond better to their customer needs with this unique quad band solution. Realtek's RTL9607DA 2.5G PON Gateway Processor provides a high performance and flexible enterprise-class gateway solution for operators and carriers worldwide to deploy the next generation of fiber access service to businesses and consumers. The solution integrates a 12.5Gbps routing and switching platform with advanced features, including a multiprotocol xPON ONU MAC and SW that supports the PON modes as defined in IEEE802.3ah (EPON) and ITU-T G.984.3 (GPON). The RTL9607DA features a highly programmable data forwarding and networking engine with a rich set of integrated peripherals powered by Dual SMP ARM CortextTM-A55 CPU cores. The platform provides the stability and features of multiple generations of PON ONU and HGW designs proven in deployments across the world.
Realtek Semiconductor Corp. is a Taiwan-based company principally engaged in the research, development, production and distribution of integrated circuits (ICs). The Company's products portfolio consists of communications network ICs, including Ethernet controllers, gateway controllers, network interface controller chips, switch controllers, wireless local area network (WLAN) chips and others; computer peripheral ICs, including personal computer (PC) audio compression/decompression modules (CODECs), consumer audio CODECs, card reader controllers and clock generator chipsets, as well as multimedia ICs, including digital video playing chips, network media chips and integrated flash memory micro processing controllers. Its products are applied in network cards, switches, gateways, routers, computers, mobile phones, digital cameras and televisions. The Company distributes its products in domestic market and to overseas markets.
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