AirTies teams with Broadcom on Wi-Fi 6
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| 21 December 2018

Managed in-home Wi-Fi solutions provider AirTies has announced a strategic collaboration with home networking technology firm Broadcom, integrating its Smart Wi-Fi and cloud-based management software into the latter’s Wi-Fi 6 drivers.

Wi-Fi 6 is expected to bring increased speed and capacity than the previous generation of Wi-Fi (802.11ac). It will also more efficiently support the increasing density of devices in the connected home with lower latency and enhanced battery life.

The result of the new partnership says AirTies is that it will be easier for operators to bring solutions to third-party gateways. In addition, AirTies will use Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 6 chipsets in a new class of Mesh extenders to be offered in 2019.

Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 6 chipsets will also be integrated with access to AirTies’ Remote Manager, a cloud-based optimisation suite that provides real-time visibility and historical performance analysis to manage the consumer Wi-Fi experience. For legacy and new Wi-Fi 6 devices, AirTies Remote Manager is designed to maximise responsiveness and performance by leveraging both cloud-based and localised network intelligence.

“Our newest strategic effort with Broadcom will make it easier for operators to adopt Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 6 chipsets to have access to our industry-leading Smart Wi-Fi software and in-home management software platform,” said AirTies CMO Oz Yildirim. “We look forward to enabling service providers to leverage our software on third-party gateways and to bringing our own Wi-Fi 6 Mesh extenders to market in 2019. Powered by Broadcom’s latest 4x4 Wi-Fi 6 chipsets, these new extenders will continue our legacy of designing the kind of elegant and compact products that both operators and consumers demand.”

“Wi-Fi 6 is the next great advancement in the evolution of Wi-Fi technology, and we are excited about its potential for broadband service providers around the globe,” added Gregory Fischer, senior vice president and general manager, broadband carrier access, Broadcom. “AirTies is a proven global leader in managed Wi-Fi software solutions, and the powerful combination of Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 6 and AirTies’ Smart Wi-Fi software will enable operators to serve the super connected homes of today and tomorrow.”