Edgewater Wireless Systems, the industry leader in Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing technology for residential and enterprise markets, announced updates on ongoing corporate activities for 2022.
Spectrum Slicing Commercialization Progress
Edgewater’s large-scale Proof of Concept (PoC) with a major Tier-1 Service Provider, which demonstrated that 75% of today’s homes could see a 7 to 18 times throughput benefit with Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing, energized Edgewater’s efforts to drive Spectrum Slicing technology into the global residential Wi-Fi market. The Company’s successful Pilot, where real-world test results on its ‘beta’ silicon mirrored the PoC results, delivered a 50% improvement to latency, driving deeper technical discussions on the benefits of Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing in the home with additional high-level industry players. With COVID restrictions easing worldwide, in-person engagements have resumed and have progressed to business discussions on implementation, scale and unit costs.
Product Expansion Initiatives
Insights gained working hand-in-hand with this major Tier-1, and as part of the CableLabs family, have provided a deeper understanding of the technical and business challenges in the broader residential Wi-Fi market. Ongoing discussions and key learnings with the Tier-1, CableLabs and other market players are driving design revisions for Edgewater’s next-generation Spectrum Slicing silicon solutions, honing the Company’s focus, and driving innovations. Understanding the limitations of the traditional, single-link Wi-Fi approach in most homes gives Edgewater a distinct competitive advantage.
The Company is broadening its customer funnel to include select vendors and OEMs for its next-generation silicon solutions. Edgewater is establishing a framework to have its products in gateways, mesh nodes, Access Points and force-multiplying Wi-Fi software solutions already in the market today.
Global Wi-Fi Industry Dynamics
Edgewater’s progress with the major Tier-1, and select industry players, has been bolstered by the recent developments in the global Wi-Fi industry as it evolves to embrace multi-channel architecture. In a significant Wi-Fi market disruption, a major vendor unexpectedly abandoned its WiFi6E market push and instead has accelerated shipments of their pre-WiFi7 silicon. Consequently, the global focus has quickly turned to WiFi7 and its flagship feature, MLO, or Multi-Link Operation — an embrace of multi-channel architecture and an acknowledgement of the limited, real-world benefits of WiFi6.. With MLO, the more links available, the more enhanced the feature becomes. Edgewater Spectrum Slicing increases the available links within the Wi-Fi spectrum by 8X or more.
Andrew Skafel, President and CEO of Edgewater Wireless
We are pleased with our continued progress with a major Tier-1 Service Provider, which remains on track with the Company’s 2022 Strategic Plan. As well, recent industry developments have strengthened our position within the upcoming WiFi7 standard, the next step-change in Wi-Fi, bolstering our competitive position for the next wave of Wi-Fi.
