Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. announced strong demand from multiple Tier-1 service providers and OEMs supported by requests for engineering samples of Edgewater's cutting-edge MLX 488 WiFi7 Spectrum Slicing platform. Edgewater is currently undertaking focused engineering efforts and is targeting delivery in second quarter 2024. Engineering samples represent beta editions of integrated circuits intended for compatibility, validation or demonstration purposes.

They are commonly provided to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Service Providers before the official chip launch, facilitating production development or showcasing innovative features and functionality. Edgewater's MLX 488 WiFi7 platform is the world's first silicon solution to couple the performance of WiFi7 with the proven robustness and flexibility of Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing. Highly differentiated features include: Patent-pending, AI-enabled, dynamic channel width selection supporting up to 28 concurrent links/channels, Multi-flex MLO: the first high-performance Multi-Link Operation (MLO) solution engineered to support multiple, concurrent MLO connections, Intelligent Channel Association (ICA??) optimizes device and application layer performance, Plus, standard WiFi7 features such as up to 320 MHz wide channel support, MLO and 4K QAM.

With Edgewater's Wi-Fi Spectrum Sliced, Service Providers and vendors are no longer forced to replace all existing devices, such as WiFi4/5/6, on the network to benefit from the evolving Wi-Fi 7 standard. In other words, the 20+ Billion existing Wi-Fi devices, such as TVs, smartphones and gaming consoles, do not need to be replaced to realize the gains associated with Spectrum Slicing - plus the newest devices can benefit from the latest WiFi7 standard. Using advanced signal processing techniques, Spectrum Slicing is proven to deliver dramatically lower latency (50% or more) and 7 to 18 times performance gains over legacy, single-channel Wi-Fi architectures -- for EXISTING and new devices.

Growth for Edgewater Wireless is to be supported by an anticipated blend of traditional and non-dilutive growth capital, newly formed strategic alliances and government programs anchoring silicon production in North America, and further market penetration of Edgewater's recently launched next-generation Wi-Fi 7 product line.