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To address the expansion of Wi-Fi 6 into smart homes as well as industrial, automotive and IoT markets, Ceva claims to offer the industry’s first Wi-Fi 6/6E access point IP. It has been added to the company’s RivieraWaves Wi-Fi IP family. 

It is designed for high bit rate, low latency connectivity in these emerging consumer and enterprise applications, with all the latest features of the IEEE 802.11ax standard.

Wi-Fi 6 is on track to displace Wi-Fi 5 (i.e., IEEE 802.11ac) as the dominant form of consumer Wi-Fi by 2023, said Ceva. 

Innovations in Wi-Fi 6 make it suitable for the home and office environment, which has high bandwidth clients such as phones, laptops, tablets, gaming stations, smart TVs and set-top boxes, and IoT devices. For industrial applications, manufacturing and factory automation require cost-effective, low-latency, high-performance indoor connectivity in what can be challenging environments. Wi-Fi 6 offers features such as multi-user OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) downlink and uplink as well as multi-user MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), for efficiency and low latency in heterogeneous high concurrency environments. The 6GHz spectrum resource opened by Wi-Fi 6E enables high throughput with 160HMz bandwidth connections even in congested environments.

The RivieraWaves Wi-Fi 6 Access Point IP delivers digital PHY and MAC layers for IEEE 802.11ax in a 2×2 configuration, supporting up to 160MHz bandwidth and a throughput of up to 2401Mbits per second (at MCS11-2SS-160MHz). It supports AES-CCM /GCMP, RC4 and WPI crypto accelerators and offers features to enhance medium usage like the preamble puncturing, target wake time, fragmentation and 1024 QAM, added Ceva. An advanced PTA (packet traffic arbitration) function “ensures smooth co-existence with Bluetooth”. The radio interface enables integration with radio circuitry from Ceva partners or licensee’s own radio, including with radios that support 6GHz for Wi-Fi 6E. To simplify deployment in SoC/ASSP designs, the RivieraWaves Wi-Fi 6 Access Point IP is provided with an integration-ready platform containing an optional open-source RISC-V processor and is operating system-agnostic.

The RivieraWaves Wi-Fi 6 Access Point IP is available for licensing now. 

http://www.ceva-dsp.com

Servers based on Intel’s Xeon D processors have been launched by Supermicro Computer at MWC in Barcelona.

The E300,110D and 510D servers incorporate the latest Intel Xeon D-1700 and Intel Xeon D-2700 processors. They are designed for ruggedised environments where the power and performance of the Intel Xeon D processors are needed to meet demanding service level agreements (SLAs) says Supermicro.

The SYS-E300 incorporates an Intel Xeon D processor with four, eight or 10 cores and up to 256Gbyte of DDR4 memory in a 1U mini-server case. The SYS-510D model offers larger amounts of storage and a total of four 1G and two 25G Ethernet ports, while the SYS-110D servers contain CPUs with up to 20 cores and 512Gbyte of memory. Each system includes the Intel Xeon D processor with an SoC for the edge with built-in AI, security, advanced I/O, and dense computing. 

Organisations that deliver services to the edge will be able to process increasing amounts of data acquired at the edge using these servers, says Supermicro. The Supermicro SYS-110D server includes a single Intel Xeon D processor, with a TDP up to 125W and a PCI-E 4.0×16 slot. Various I/O options are available, and up to two 2.5-inch SATA/U.2 drives can be installed. Redundant power supplies are available, whether AC or DC power is needed.

“The new Intel Xeon-D processors are specifically designed for processing at the edge of the network, with dense compute and high-performance network connectivity that delivers high data throughput from the edge that businesses demand,” explained Jeni Panhorst, Intel vice president and general manager, Network & Edge Platforms division.  

The SYS-E300 product line contains up to two SATA drives. Popular application areas are networking applications such as firewalls and universal customer premises equipment, which consolidates processing and networking needs in an easy-to-use compact form factor.

 Visit Supermicro at MWC (Hall 5, Booth 5D66)

http://www.supermicro.com

Current public 5G and Wi-Fi networks do not have the bandwidth, low latency, flexibility, control over security and network management capabilities that modern organisations need, says Zyter. The digital health and IoT-enablement company has collaborated with Qualcomm Technologies to support the demonstration of 5G private networks by providing network management services, a user interface / dashboard and three initial production-ready applications that include autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), lidar-based analytics and AI-based cameras.

5G private networks offer significant advantages over current public 5G and Wi-Fi networks, with higher bandwidth and lower latency to support thousands of devices and data intensive applications. Advanced network management capabilities, such as allocating bandwidth to different devices or customising security protocols are also necessary. 

Qualcomm Technologies, Zyter and other ecosystem members are solving these challenges through the demonstration of 5G private networks powered by Qualcomm FSM 5G RAN platforms.

In addition to providing network management and a consolidated dashboard to display application and device data, Zyter is also making three production-ready applications available. 

The autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are equipped with sensors and cameras and use AI and machine learning to autonomously move goods inside a defined space such as a factory or warehouse.

The lidar-based analytics project consists of cameras that can be used to detect the movement of people and goods in a defined space, which is rendered on a 3D map viewed on Zyter’s dashboard. 

The AI-based cameras support 4K video streams originating from eight cameras provided by Qualcomm Technologies’ device ecosystem members as well as data analysis.

“Applications like lidar-based analytics require high bandwidth, low latency networks that can potentially support thousands of devices, render images in 3D, or enable autonomous mobile robots to react in milliseconds,” said Sanjay Govil, founder and CEO of Zyte. “The combination of Qualcomm Technologies’ platforms for 5G private networks with Zyter’s leading-edge applications offer a world of new possibilities for organizations that want more performance, ownership and control.”

Zyter is one of the system integrators supporting the introduction of the Qualcomm private networks RAN automation. 

Zyter 5G applications are available for demonstration on the Qualcomm Smart Campus in San Diego.

http://www.zyter.com