MaxLinear, Inc. announced their WAV600 Series-2 Chipset SoCs have been selected as access point test bed devices for the Wi-Fi Alliance® Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ Release 2 certification. The test bed uses a MaxLinear WAV615 and two MaxLinear WAV665 Wi-Fi Transceiver SoCs to enable tri-band interoperability testing at 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz. This chipset delivers on the major features across three bands of the IEEE 802.11ax release 2 standard which further increases the reach, network capacity per user, and battery life of connected client devices.

Designed to bring both fast and consistent connectivity in home Wi-Fi routers, gateways, and intelligent range extenders for cable, xDSL, fiber, and consumer retail infrastructure, this solution delivers improvements that benefit residential users. The MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 Chipset empowers next generation broadband platforms to serve this growing market. Ensures Faster Uploads for Video Streaming and Gaming: The WAV600 Series-2 enables UL-MUMIMO which allows multiple STAs to upload content simultaneously, enabling overall better network performance and user experience especially for gaming, video calling, video conferencing and streaming applications.

Improves Network Performance: In addition to delivering speeds up to 4.8 Gbps, the WAV600 Series-2 further improves performance through support of several novel Wi-Fi Certified 6 Release 2 features: Preamble puncturing which allows enhanced network access in the presence of narrow-band interferers. M-BSSID which reduces management and signaling overhead when supporting multiple networks (BSS). Improves Battery Life for Mobile Clients: The WAV600 Series-2 supports new low power and sleep mode enhancements, including the new Wi-Fi Certified 6 Release 2 feature Target Wake Time (TWT), Broadcast Target Wake Time and Extended Sleep Time which allows for more optimized sleep/wake schedules for power-critical devices.

Extends Range for IoT Clients: The WAV600 Series-2 supports the Uplink Extended Range capability defined in Wi-Fi Certified 6 Release 2 that ensures outdoor station (STA) connections are maintained over a longer distance from an access point and delivers improvements that provide increased coverage in dense, congested environments such as high-rise dwellings (MDUs). The MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 chipset includes the following IEEE 802.11ax-2021 compliant Wi-Fi transceiver solutions: WAV615 – up to 1.14Gbps PHY Throughput, 2.4GHz, WAV665 - up to 4.8Gbps PHY Throughput, 5-7GHz and WAV655 - up to 3Gbps PHY Throughput, 2.4GHz + 5GHz (Concurrent Dual Band).