Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. announced its next-generation of Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing powered silicon solutions targeting residential, enterprise and prosumer applications. Building on the latest Wi-Fi standard, WiFi7 (802.11BE), Edgewater's groundbreaking platform offers more physical channel capacity than single-channel, legacy Wi-Fi architectures — bringing lower latency and reduced contention for existing and new devices. With ‘Beta' Spectrum Slicing capable silicon now available for select partner evaluations, engineering samples of Edgewater's WiFi7 silicon are targeted by the end of second quarter current year 2024, with commercial products expected at the end of second quarter current year 2025.

WiFi7 (802.11BE), or Extremely High Throughput, is the newest iteration of the Wi-Fi standard and will support 320 MHz wide channels and increased QAM (4096) in the 6 GHz band. Most importantly, WiFi7 will include Multi-Link Operation (MLO), a stunning coup for Edgewater and its supporters. An embrace of multi-channel architecture, Multi-link Operation (MLO), and the Dual-Channel Wi-Fi standard are the first features capable of taking advantage of more physical links/channels between access points and devices to increase throughput and lower latency.

Increasing link density on Access Points will become critical as the number of MLO-capable devices increases. Edgewater's Spectrum Slicing boasts the highest link density in the market, creating a future-proof platform for service delivery. 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: up to 320 MHz wide channel support, Multi-Flex MLO and 4K QAM.

Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing enables more in-band links/channels than all legacy Wi-Fi architectures. Backed by 26 granted patents, Edgewater's physical layer spectrum slicing allows a frequency band to be divided, or sliced, to enable more radios to operate in a given area. Think of Spectrum Slicing as moving from a single-land road to a multi-lane highway — Levelling up Wi-Fi features and applications for existing and new devices.

Edgewater's MLX 488 WiFi7 platform key features and benefits are engineered to include: AI-enabled, dynamic channel width supporting up to 28 concurrent links/channels. Multi-Flex MLO: the first high-performance MLO solution engineered to support multiple concurrent MLO connections. Integrated SSA™ (Spectral Surveillance Architecture): real-time, full-band capture spectral surveillance capabilities without disrupting Wi-Fi traffic.

Intelligent Channel Association (ICA™) optimizes device and application layer performance.