Broadcom Introduces Industry’s First 3x3 Wi-Fi 6 Chip for Mass-Market WLAN Access Points and Set-Top Boxes
October 10 2019 - 11:00AM
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the availability of
its 3x3 Wi-Fi 6 chip, the BCM6710, designed for WLAN applications
including Wi-Fi routers, residential gateways, wireless range
extenders, and set-top boxes. The BCM6710 is a highly optimized
Wi-Fi 6 chip with integrated RF power amplifiers, providing OEMs a
cost-effective, high-performance solution for their mass-market
products.
The BCM6710 is the first 3x3 Wi-Fi 6 solution supporting three
transmit and three receive streams in 2.4-GHz, 5-GHz and future
6-GHz bands. With the 6-GHz Wi-Fi capability, the chip paves the
way for high-bandwidth, low-latency applications, such as 4K UHD
video streaming, real-time immersive gaming, and augmented reality
(AR).
BCM6710 Product Highlights
- Full compliance to IEEE and WFA 802.11ax specifications
- 3 Tx and 3 Rx chains
- Selective 2.4-GHz, 5-GHz, or 6-GHz band operation
- 1024 QAM modulation
- Uplink & downlink OFDMA
- MU-MIMO
“A year ago Broadcom announced the production launch of BCM43684
– its flagship 4x4 Wi-Fi 6 radio for residential gateways and
access points. Following that Broadcom has announced and delivered
multiple SoCs with one or two 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 radios integrated,” said
Greg Fischer, senior vice president and general manager of the
Broadband Carrier Access Products Division at Broadcom. “With the
addition of BCM6710 to the portfolio, Broadcom allows customers to
build a diverse set of high-performance Wi-Fi 6 products, which are
optimized for both cost and form factor.”
Broadcom will showcase its latest Wi-Fi 6 access point solutions
including the BCM6710 in its private booth at the 2019 Broadband
World Forum (BBWF) in Amsterdam, Netherlands from October 15th to
17th.
Availability
Broadcom is now sampling its BCM6710 device to qualified
customers. Please contact your local Broadcom sales representative
for samples and pricing.
Further information on Broadcom’s BCM6710 can be found online
at:https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-infrastructure/bcm6710
Quotes
“We are excited about Broadcom’s introduction of BCM6710 in the
market. With the addition of this chip, Sagemcom is now able to
build a diverse set of gateways, tailored to each operator’s
specific needs. The support for 6 GHz band in BCM6710 also gives us
faster time to market when 6 GHz spectrum is opened up and
available to Wi-Fi technology.” -- Ahmed Selmani, Senior Executive
VP, Sagemcom Broadband
“The new Wi-Fi 6 chip from Broadcom allows Technicolor to expand
the portfolio of products we develop to cover a growing number of
home networking scenarios. As network service providers (NSPs) look
for new ways to meet different end-user needs, Technicolor has
worked closely with Broadcom to seamlessly integrate this advanced
silicon into our latest generation of customer premises equipment
(CPE). The improvement of performance enabled by the Wi-Fi 6
BCM6710 will lead to better user experiences for multiple services
-- such as gaming, video streaming and other connected home
applications. At BBWF, Technicolor will demonstrate for the first
time a BCM6710 chip-equipped gateway that meets the different
technical and economic requirements of cable and telco operators.”
-- Mercedes Pastor, President, Global CPE Business Unit,
Technicolor
“BCM6710 gives us and operators the flexibility we desire in the
selection of the number of antennas for Wi-Fi 6 extenders
introduced to consumers. BCM6710 can be used as the fronthaul or
backhaul radio, in dual band or tri-band designs.” -- Metin Taskin,
CTO, Airties
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supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software
solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves
critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise
software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our
solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise
and mainframe software focused on automation, monitoring and
security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation.
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