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Qualcomm is addressing numerous vertical markets and fostering open, horizontal interoperability supporting healthy and dynamic ecosystems. Explore the company’s Internet of Everything solutions to learn more.
IoE Solutions
Automotive, Transportation and Logistics
Next-generation mobile technologies and modem chipsets for passenger-car telematics.
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Smart Energy and Security
The same cellular communications technologies that are enabling billions of devices are now enabling utility companies to reliably and cost-effectively deploy smarter grids.
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Industrial Automation and Enterprise
Cellular, connectivity and computing chipset solutions that enable the Enterprise and Retail segments of the Internet of Everything.
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Consumer and Other M2M
Gobi cellular modem solutions facilitate connectivity for consumer M2M applications such as Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) and mobile health.
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Digital Home
Enabling the Internet of Everything in home environments means tomorrow’s home network must have full home coverage, simplicity (no new wires), energy efficiency, scalability, interoperability and security.
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If you have any question for IoE/M2M WiFi solution, please contact us
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Routers are the heart of the home network, and Qualcomm Atheros is at the heart of the leading brands of routers. We offer a full range of products for wired and wireless routers, as well as hybrid solutions that deliver robust, reliable connectivity to computers, TVs, smartphones, tablets, gaming handsets and consoles throughout the home.
Our comprehensive, market-proven portfolio includes:
- Qualcomm® VIVE™ 802.11ac and 802.11n Wi-Fi
- HomePlug® AV and HomePlug AV2 Powerline
- Qualcomm Hy-Fi™ Hybrid Networking
- Gigabit and Fast Ethernet Switching
- Wireless Network Processors
Qualcomm StreamBoost™: Faster, smarter networks for the Connected Home
StreamBoost is an intelligent, adaptive routing technology designed to bring unprecedented performance to home networks. StreamBoost identifies, classifies and intelligently manages traffic on your home network, dynamically giving each application the bandwidth and speed it requires for the best online experiences. Through regular, cloud based updates; StreamBoost routers recognize new connected applications and devices to continually ensure optimal performance.
Low-power operation
Qualcomm Atheros’ WLAN and PLC router solutions comply with the European Code of Conduct (CoC) on Energy Efficiency and the European Union’s Energy-using Products (EuP) Directive for low power, green energy operation. Qualcomm Atheros Ethernet switch solutions comply with the 802.3az specification for Energy Efficient Ethernet, which provides assurance of low-power operation.
Platform flexibility to speed the design process
Our scalable hardware and software architecture means vendors using any platform, on any OS, can easily and efficiently integrate our connectivity options into their products. Qualcomm Atheros’ easy-to-use development kit and open source code model for product customizations, reduce development cost and maximize return-on-investment.
Qualcomm Atheros solutions feature iQUE™, Intelligence for a Quality User Experience
Ease of use and quality of service are critical to effectively connect media in the digital home. To ensure a great user experience, our solutions feature Qualcomm Atheros iQUE®, Intelligence for a Quality User Experience. iQUE is Qualcomm Atheros’ software suite that features a variety of protocols and mechanisms that help to optimize connectivity, from easy set-up with Wi-Fi Protected Setup to the media viewing experience with Qualcomm Atheros’ Video-over-Wireless. For more information, check out Seamless Connectivity with iQUE
People on the go are always connected. Whether downloading a video on a smartphone, gaming with friends on a train, or checking in to a social network, people no longer have to compromise experience for convenience. By connecting more devices in the home, at the office, and everywhere in between, Qualcomm Atheros mobile solutions keep the world moving.
Qualcomm Atheros provides cutting-edge connectivity and location based capabilities for mobile phones, tablets, eReaders, handheld games, PNDs and a variety of other portable consumer electronics. In addition to single-chip Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®/FM and GNSS solutions, Qualcomm Atheros integrates these features into Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ mobile processors. Integrating connectivity into the MSM™ fabric removes system bottlenecks to maximize performance, while minimizing power consumption.
Mobile Wi-Fi
Qualcomm Atheros wireless solutions provide fast and reliable connectivity to enhance mobile experiences with minimal impact on battery life. Our portfolio of Wi-Fi solutions addresses the performance, size, power, and cost requirements of today's portable devices. With these unique features, we provide customers the flexibility to customize designs for a variety of wireless applications and price points. Options include:
- Qualcomm® Vive™ 1-stream 802.11ac, as well as 1- and 2-stream 802.11n
- Single-band (2.4GHz) and dual-band (2.4/5GHz)
- Combination solutions (with integrated Bluetooth and FM) that are integrated with Qualcomm MSM platforms
- Discrete SoCs to address a broad range of Wi-Fi only designs
- Support for a variety of standard interfaces
Our latest mobile solutions use Wi-Fi Miracast™ capabilities to liberate videos, photos and web content from smartphones and tablets onto larger screens, such as TVs. Based on the industry's Wi-Fi Direct peer-to-peer standard, Miracast capabilities enables simple and secure connections directly between devices – instead of connecting through a router or access point.
Superior ISM/LTE Collaboration
When deployed on Qualcomm’s LTE enabled platforms, Qualcomm Atheros connectivity solutions enable proprietary co-existence and collaboration techniques – including circuit level optimization and advanced algorithms to enable maximum performance of WLAN, Bluetooth and LTE connections. This unique collaboration allows for maximum throughput, extended battery life and minimum eBOM.
Superior Bluetooth Coexistence
Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth solutions provide robust personal area network connectivity between mobile phones, headsets, speakers, and other devices. Our latest products support the new Bluetooth 4.0 standard, which not only enables high-speed wireless connections, but also offers low-power mode to operate with battery-powered devices that aren’t traditionally “connected.” Qualcomm Atheros also offers Bluetooth 3.0 High Speed and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR performance options. All of our Bluetooth solutions feature Universal Wireless Cooperation™, which goes beyond traditional coexistence methods to ensure the best user experience for devices with both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Qualcomm Atheros AP Mode Connectivity
With our AP Mode connectivity, a smartphone or other mobile CE device can instantly and securely share the Internet data connection with up to ten Wi-Fi enabled devices such as PCs, eBooks and tablets.
Qualcomm® IZat™ Location Solutions
Featured in over 1 billion mobile devices, Qualcomm IZat location solutions provide always-on positioning capabilities with unmatched accuracy and minimal impact on battery life. The end-to-end Qualcomm IZat platform augments satellite-based measurements with cellular, Wi-Fi and sensor positioning techniques, and leverages an array of cloud-based assistance servers to provide a superior location experience. Qualcomm IZat GNSS chipsets are integrated into Qualcomm’s MSM, MDM and APQ platforms, and also sold as discrete SoCs to support a wide variety of device architectures.
Mobile connectivity has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Whether for work or play, consumers expect their essential portable devices to surf the internet, Skype, navigate, and play their music and movies… all without wires.
Qualcomm Atheros is making it easy to add high-performance Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and location capabilities to just about every genre of portable consumer electronic devices conceivable. Our compact, ultra low-power, full-featured solutions are optimized to provide connectivity in:
- Qualcomm® Vive™ 1-stream 802.11ac, as well as 1- and 2-stream 802.11n
- Single-band (2.4GHz) and dual-band (2.4/5GHz)
- Combination solutions (with integrated Bluetooth and FM) that are integrated with Qualcomm MSM platforms
- Discrete SoCs to address a broad range of Wi-Fi only designs
- Support for a variety of standard interfaces
Qualcomm Atheros Mobile WLAN
Qualcomm Atheros' Wi-Fi solutions are enabling Internet connectivity and device-to-device content sharing in a wide array of mobile consumer electronics, creating opportunities for entirely new consumer applications with portable devices. Qualcomm Atheros has helped remove the barriers to adding Wi-Fi to mobile consumer electronics, turning what was once “nice to have” into a “must have” feature. With low current consumption, up to 170 Mbps of actual throughput, significant BOM integration and extremely small size, Qualcomm Atheros solutions enable compact, high-performance connectivity that supports rich media content, real-time gaming, photo and file sharing, while minimally impacting the product’s battery life.
Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth® Technology
Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth technology enables portable consumer electronics to create personal area connections with a multitude of Bluetooth-enabled devices, to enhance voice and data applications. With support for Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy and Bluetooth 3.0 High Speed , Qualcomm Atheros’ Bluetooth solutions combine the bandwidth of Wi-Fi with the ease of Bluetooth pairing for consumer electronics devices, enabling support for robust, high-bandwidth applications and longer battery charges.
Qualcomm Atheros Mobile Wi-Fi + Bluetooth®
Our mobile Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combination solutions deliver the optimized throughput, size and power savings needed for mobile and embedded devices. Despite their tiny footprint and energy-saving qualities, our mobile Wi-Fi + Bluetooth solutions feature Qualcomm Atheros Align® 1-stream 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed and Universal Wireless Cooperation™, for advanced wireless coexistence.
Qualcomm® IZat™ Location Technology
IZat location solutions provide always-on positioning capabilities with unmatched accuracy and minimal impact on battery life. IZat GNSS chipsets are integrated into Qualcomm’s MSM, MDM and APQ platforms, and also sold as discrete SoCs to support a wide variety of device architectures. Qualcomm's end-to-end location platform augments satellite-based measurements with cellular, Wi-Fi and sensor positioning techniques, and leverages an array of cloud-based assistance servers to provide a superior location experience.
Qualcomm® ETHOS® solutions for Ethernet are meticulously designed to provide our customers with the lowest-power, most miniscule PHYs, controllers and switches to make your networks and devices run as efficiently as possible. And while Ethernet may seem like a fairly simple connectivity technology, our ETHOS solutions contain advanced features and intelligence to make your networks and devices smarter and leaner.
Qualcomm ETHOS Ethernet Technology
Qualcomm Atheros provides a broad portfolio of high-performance, low-power Ethernet solutions for the computing, networking and consumer electronics markets to serve its customers with comprehensive connectivity platforms. Our solutions consist of fast and Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, controllers and switches, and are optimized to address the growing demands for increased network capacity, latency-sensitive voice and multimedia applications in the digital home, on computing platforms and in the enterprise.
Leading low power with EDGE™
With EDGE: ETHOS-Designed Green Ethernet low-power technology, Qualcomm Atheros is leading the competition in low energy. Our design team considers how it can conserve power at literally every step of the design process. Our latest-generation solutions support the newly ratified IEEE 802.3az-2010 Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard. Though the efficiency benefits of the 802.3az are greatest for Gigabit Ethernet solutions, Qualcomm Atheros now implements the protocol across our line of fast Ethernet solutions, as well.
The combination of EEE protocols and Qualcomm Atheros’ proprietary power-saving techniques reduces solution power consumption by up to 80%. This significant power advantage gives our customers a competitive edge when designing products for energy-conscious consumers and businesses. To learn more, see EDGE: ETHOS-Designed Green Ethernet.
Integration and small size provide big advantage
Qualcomm Atheros’ PHYs and switches are among the smallest and most cost-effective solutions available. By integrating a dozen external components per PHY port (including resistors, clocks and a switching regulator), the new ETHOS solutions offer the industry’s lowest bill-of-materials (BOM) cost. The highly integrated packages also provide significantly smaller footprints and lower pin-counts than competitive solutions.
Who knew that the home’s power circuit could be such a cool way to network broadband content to even those hard-to-reach rooms in the home? With Qualcomm® AMP™ Powerline (PLC) technology, our customers can create up to 500 Mbps of networking capacity in routers and adapters that comprise the home’s wired network. The perfect complement to Wi-Fi, PLC is a great way to connect those computers, set-top boxes and TVs that are already attached to the electrical outlet.
Qualcomm AMP Powerline Technology
Qualcomm Atheros powerline (PLC) technology operates on world’s most pervasive wired medium, the home’s power circuit. Tapping this networking source hidden in the home’s walls, Qualcomm AMP Powerline technology provides easy and reliable broadband connectivity to support high-definition multimedia and real-time gaming applications throughout the home. Qualcomm Atheros’ PLC solutions are HomePlug certified and support the IEEE 1901 global powerline standard, which was ratified in September, 2010.
Qualcomm Atheros powerline (PLC) technology operates on world’s most pervasive wired medium, the home’s power circuit. Tapping this networking source hidden in the home’s walls, Qualcomm AMP Powerline technology provides easy and reliable broadband connectivity to support high-definition multimedia and real-time gaming applications throughout the home. Qualcomm Atheros’ PLC solutions are HomePlug certified and support the IEEE 1901 global powerline standard, which was ratified in September, 2010.
Qualcomm Atheros’ offers unprecedented performance with its powerline-based Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC) solution for last mile broadband access and support for two-way data services. Service providers in China are currently designing Qualcomm Atheros’ EOC solutions into customer premises equipment and broadband infrastructure to support China’s Next-Generation Broadband specification.
Superior powerline performance
Our newest powerline solution, the AR7400, offers standards-plus extended spectrum operation to deliver more than 500 Mbps PHY rates, a 2.5 times improvement over alternative HomePlug AV products. Home networks can experience a performance boost of 50 percent or more in actual throughput at nearly every outlet in the home versus legacy powerline solutions, making every room HD-capable. As such, AMP technology is ideal for transmitting latency-sensitive broadband media throughout the home.
Qualcomm Atheros’ AR7400-based Ethernet-over-Coax solution supports PHY rates of 700 Mbps and up to 350 Mbps of actual throughput over coax cables, providing cable operators with a cost-effective way to deliver two-way data services, such as broadband access, interactive TV, and video-on-demand, over existing coax infrastructures.
Low-power operation
Qualcomm Atheros new-generation powerline solutions comply with the stringent European Code of Conduct (CoC) on Energy Efficiency and the European Union’s Energy-using Products (EuP) Directive for low power, green energy operation. They also consume 40 percent less active power than the nearest competitor, eliminating the need for large, expensive heat sinks.
Powerline, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Hybrid Networks
Qualcomm Atheros PLC, Wi-Fi and Ethernet technologies are converging into a new class of hybrid home networking solutions, which provide very scalable and flexible bandwidth to enable robust coverage in every room in the home. Combined with Qualcomm Atheros XSPAN with SST3 3-stream 11n wireless, Qualcomm Atheros AMP is unleashing a Gigabit of unlicensed spectrum in the home. This greatly expanded capacity will support simultaneous streaming of HD content in rooms where connectivity has previously been insufficient.
Introducing Qualcomm® Hy-Fi™: The Hybrid Wired / Wireless Network.
Hy-Fi brings together the best of Wi-Fi®, Powerline and Ethernet to deliver the most flexible and reliable content distribution throughout the entire network. This smart technology selects the optimal path to overcome obstacles and enable flawless delivery of HD media to devices everywhere in the home. It’s the network that adapts to you, not the other way around.
Qualcomm's Hy-Fi Technology
Qualcomm Atheros is taking an unprecedented approach to solving the home networking issues faced by many consumers. Rather than forcing one technology to fit every home and every application, Qualcomm Atheros is leveraging its arsenal of Wi-Fi®, HomePlug® AV and Ethernet solutions to deliver a high-performance network with the reliability of wires and the flexibility of wireless.
Qualcomm Atheros offers a variety of Hy-Fi reference designs based on various combinations of its XSPAN® wireless LAN, AMP™ powerline and ETHOS® Ethernet technologies. These designs provide networking manufacturers with complete hardware and software solutions that can be used to build a variety of hybrid home networking products, from routers to adapters.
Reliable connectivity everywhere
Qualcomm's Hy-Fi solutions help consumers build a home network with the performance they need, where they need it. It starts with the world’s fastest powerline and Wi-Fi solutions, which together provide nearly a Gigabit of unlicensed spectrum. By merging this wired and wireless capacity, hybrid networks can support even more devices and more bandwidth-intensive applications. In addition to sheer bandwidth, Qualcomm's Hy-Fi solutions offer the flexibility to ensure robust connectivity in every room in the home. Consumers can easily mix-and-match products to suit the unique characteristics of their home and the bandwidth requirements of their applications.
Taking the “work” out of home networking
The world’s most powerful networking equipment is worthless unless someone can install it. To alleviate the challenges that consumers face when setting up a home network, Qualcomm Atheros has added “behind the scenes” intelligence. In addition to unifying the wired and wireless networks with a single user interface, Qualcomm Atheros’ hybrid software simplifies network setup, security and management. It also eliminates the hassles of expanding the network in the future, by allowing push-button configuration of any Hy-Fi adapter.
Turning the home network into a platform for carrier-grade services
Improving the home networking experience for consumers is just the first step. Hy-Fi networks offer great possibilities for service providers, too. To keep pace with the increasing bandwidth to the home, carriers are looking for systems with the capacity and reliability to support media services throughout the home. The performance and features of Qualcomm Atheros’ hybrid solutions will continue to evolve to meet this need. Eventually, Qualcomm’s Hy-Fi networks will provide a powerful platform on which carriers can deliver a host of profitable services – from whole-home media distribution and video-on-demand, to home control and energy management.
