Chips that are 2 stage without integrated RFIC I think you will see will work just fine with no cost hit at all.
You’re right though, most high volume chips are highly integrated chips with PA and RFIC, and clearly not focused on moving into this space (read: chips for mobile phones and low cost home router Wi-Fi chips). One of the reasons we love Quantenna…clean division of baseband chip and external customizable RFIC/PA, etc. Cheers, Jaime Fink • Mimosa<http://www.mimosa.co/> • CPO & Co-Founder This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. From: Josh Reynolds Reply-To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 at 2:20 PM To: Bill Prince Cc: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AC spec available in 2.4? Beam forming was an optional part of 802.11n. There are two types of beamforming, antenna based and chip/tx based. 802.11AC is significantly more efficient than 802.11N when it comes to protocol overhead, however the majority of the speed gain is from higher order modulations coupled with larger channel sizes. BTW, 160MHz wide channels are on the horizon for 802.11AC rev3. MU-MIMO is nice. I would not expect to ever see a 2.4GHz "AC" chipset on the mass market at "reasonable pricing", even for ISPs. Too little to gain, on various fronts. On Mar 13, 2015 1:02 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com<mailto:part15...@gmail.com>> wrote: If the only way to gain more throughput in AC (over N) is to increase the channel size, then there is no significant gain in AC. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 3/13/2015 1:42 PM, Vince West wrote: To an extent. More range, more speed, beamforming. But are you really gaining anything in the smaller channel sizes with AC in 2.4Ghz? I don't know the standard really well aside from it's obvious gains. The main things, AFAIK, that are beneficial from AC are the increased speeds and beamforming. I understand where beamforming is important. And better range. It would be interesting to know what can be gained from 802.11ac in 2.4Ghz but the main argument I have heard against it is that there isn't enough spectrum. Vince West Tower Hand Technical Support Shelby Broadband 148 Citizens Blvd Simpsonville, KY 40067 Phone: 1-888-364-4232 On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Chuck Hogg <ch...@shelbybb.com<mailto:ch...@shelbybb.com>> wrote: There are chipsets and I believe that one of the manufacturers are going to do one. Regards, Chuck On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Paul McCall <pa...@pdmnet.net<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net>> wrote: I get their explanation…. BUT… isn’t there some general efficiencies that .ac has over .n even on the same channel size? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] On Behalf Of Vince West Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 4:27 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AC spec available in 2.4? I can't attest to the accuracy, but I found this on the web a few years ago and saved it just for a question like this. Why is 802.11ac 5Ghz only?<http://blogs.aerohive.com/blog/the-wi-fi-security-blog/why-is-80211ac-5-ghz-only> Vince West Tower Hand Technical Support Shelby Broadband 148 Citizens Blvd Simpsonville, KY 40067 Phone: 1-888-364-4232 On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Gino Villarini <g...@aeronetpr.com<mailto:g...@aeronetpr.com>> wrote: Afaik 5ghz only Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com<http://www.aeronetpr.com> @aeronetpr From: Paul McCall <pa...@pdmnet.net<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net>> Reply-To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 at 4:14 PM To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Subject: [AFMUG] AC spec available in 2.4? Is the 802.11ac spec only a 5 GHz spec or will we eventually see it in 2.4 Ghz? Paul McCall, Pres. PDMNet / Florida Broadband 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 office 772-473-0352 cell www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com/> pa...@pdmnet.net<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net>
