What if your home Wi-Fi router could juggle all your smartphones, tablets, laptops, consoles and the rest of your technostuff, weigh the different types of traffic, and then make adjustments to optimize throughput for each device? New firmware for Celeno Communications' Wi-Fi chips is intended to do just that.
The new OptimizAir 2.0 code is for what Celeno calls "airtime management." It now lets the Celeno 11n and 11ac radio chips use customized rules to allocate to each SSID (or even each device) set up on a router or similar device a specific amount of time for its transmissions. Throughput is directly proportional to time on the network. OptimizAir makes transmission time consistent for clients, smoothing out network connections, and making it impossible for one client to hog the air, crippling throughput for the others.
This idea of "airtime fairness" isn't new, but Celeno is introducing this capability on its radio chip, not as a higher layer software feature as has been typically done by WLAN product vendors.
Celeno's chips are aimed at home gateways and routers and similar network infrastructure devices, often supplied via a cable TV company or Internet provider. Using the new firmware, they could, for example, add a second SSID for public Wi-Fi access to the residential wireless router offered to residential customers. With OpitmizAir 2.0, the provider can allocate 80% of the capacity in a given channel to the residential Wi-Fi clients, and 20% for the outward-facing public Wi-Fi access, says Lior Weiss, vice president of marketing for Celeno, in Ra'anana, Israel.
New firmware for Celeno's Wi-Fi chips lets home gateways and routers control transmission times for clients, improving throughput.
via WiFiNovation | Scoop.it
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