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If so then they are dreaming. Home environments by definition are not optimized ...
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There is a substantial difference in the requirements for carrier-grade Wi-Fi ...
Cisco, others fund Wi-Fi startup
Mark LaPedus
11/15/2010 1:01 PM EST
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Celeno Communications Inc., a provider of semiconductors for multimedia Wi-Fi home networking applications, has closed a $12 million funding round.
The latest round includes new strategic investor: Liberty Global Inc. In September, Liberty Global chose Celeno’s carrier-grade Wi-Fi technology to power its multimedia home gateway.
Previous investors-Cisco, Greylock Partners, Miven Venture Partners, and Pitango Venture Capital-also participated in the round.
Celeno’s Wi-Fi chipsets, powered by its OptimizAIR technology suite, is said to improve 802.11n Wi-Fi to deliver HD video with whole-home coverage. It achieves up to 10 times the range and throughput compared to legacy 802.11n solutions, according to the Ra'anana, Israel-based firm.
''Celeno’s solutions enable HD video applications such as IPTV residential gateway to set top box connectivity, multi-room DVR content distribution to multiple terminals around the house, Internet over the top video streaming and wireless HDTV applications,'' according to the firm.
The latest round includes new strategic investor: Liberty Global Inc. In September, Liberty Global chose Celeno’s carrier-grade Wi-Fi technology to power its multimedia home gateway.
Previous investors-Cisco, Greylock Partners, Miven Venture Partners, and Pitango Venture Capital-also participated in the round.
Celeno’s Wi-Fi chipsets, powered by its OptimizAIR technology suite, is said to improve 802.11n Wi-Fi to deliver HD video with whole-home coverage. It achieves up to 10 times the range and throughput compared to legacy 802.11n solutions, according to the Ra'anana, Israel-based firm.
''Celeno’s solutions enable HD video applications such as IPTV residential gateway to set top box connectivity, multi-room DVR content distribution to multiple terminals around the house, Internet over the top video streaming and wireless HDTV applications,'' according to the firm.
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iniewski
11/15/2010 4:09 PM EST
10 times the range and throughput of 802.11n?!...sounds too good to be true, laws of physics must be broken in the process of making this technology (or more likely writing about it) I suspect ;-)...Kris
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Liorw
11/16/2010 7:42 AM EST
There is a substantial difference in the requirements for carrier-grade Wi-Fi compared to conventional retail type Wi-Fi. Service providers test Wi-Fi at zero packet error conditions, while streaming to multiple clients simultanously and bombarding interferences from neighboring Wi-Fi systems at the same radio band to simulate tough conditions in a radio-saturated enviorment.
Under these conditions our system can perform 10 times better than conventional Wi-Fi system with the help of a suite of technologies embedded in the chip. Lior.
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chanj
11/15/2010 4:50 PM EST
http://www.celeno.com/Technology/ describes what it is. With beamforming, the company might be able to claim it is a point-to-point communication instead of point to multipoint. Then, the allowable EIRP will be more. The allowable antenna gain will be more. Whether it will be 10 times better, it will be subjected to how they measure.
Nonetheless, the technology sounds very interesting. The product would be good if it can deliver what the company claims.
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LarryM99
11/15/2010 7:16 PM EST
Over the weekend I saw an 802.11n router at Costco from Vizio, the TV manufacturer. It appears that they are getting serious about including that as a next-generation TV air interface for TVs. I wonder how (and how much) they will be tweaking the interface for this application.
Larry M.
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