Qualcomm Announces its Latest Networking Pro 1620 Platform

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.  announces its latest wifi chipset  labeled as Networking Pro 1620 Platform. The Networking Pro 1620 Platform features a massively expanded range of Wi-Fi channels in the 6GHz spectrum, with simultaneous operation in 2.4, 5, and 6GHz spectrum bands and 320MHz channel support in the 6GHz band, where available, for max throughput and congestion avoidance for low latency applications.

In addition, the Networking Pro 1620 Platform  also boasts a 240MHz channel support, key for regions without 6GHz spectrum availability, across 5GHz channels, support for 4K QAM and Qualcomm Multi-User Traffic Management provides advanced scheduling algorithms and buffering with bi-directional data support, up to 37-user OFDMA support per channel and spatial multiplexing 4-user UL/DL MU-MIMO support per channel.

Qualcomm's Networking Pro 1620 Platform also has Qualcomm Max User Architecture offers network stability and sustained throughput for up to 2000 users, and flexibility based on memory configuration, Qualcomm® Wi-Fi Security Suite offers the most comprehensive WPA3 implementation coupled with state-of-the-art embedded crypto accelerators designed to provide secure transactions across a full range of Wi-Fi data touchpoints, and advanced network interfaces for 10GbE WAN and LAN standard networking protocols and PCIe interfaces for platform extensions.

Specifications

CPU

Name: ARM Quad-core Cortex-A73

Number of Cores: 4

Clock Speed: Up to 2.2 GHz

Wi-Fi

Peak PHY Rate: Up to 33 Gbps

Generation: Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 7

Standards: 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ax, 802.11be

Spectral Bands: 2.4 GHz, 6 GHz, 5 GHz

Maximum Band Configuration: Quad-band

Channels: 160 MHz, 240 MHz, 40 MHz, 20 MHz, 320 MHz, 80 MHz

Spatial Streams: Up to 16

Peak QAM: 4K QAM

Encryption: AES-CCMP, AES-GCMP

Security: WPA3 Enhanced Open, PRNG, TKIP, WPS, WPA3 Personal, WPA2, WEP, WAPI2, WAPI1, WPA3 Enterprise, WPA3 Easy Connect

Features: 802.11be QoS, TxBF, Adaptive Interference Puncturing, OFDMA (UL/DL), 2000 users, MU-MIMO (UL/DL), Mesh 2.0, Simultaneous & Alternating Multi Link

Ethernet

Number of Ports: 6

Memory

Type: DDR3L, DDR4

Bit Width: 16-bit, 32-bit

Flash

Type: NOR, NAND, eMMC

Interface: Serial

Software Options

Operating System: Linux Kernel 5.4, Open WRT

Interfaces

Supported Interfaces: SD/eMMC, 2x USXGMII, UART, SPI, 4x PCIe 3.0, I²S, PTA Coex, I²C, USB 3.0, SDIO, 1x USXGMII-M

Platform Extensions: 4G/5G FWA, Bluetooth®, 802.15.4

Universal Serial Bus (USB)

Specification Version: USB 3.0

PCIe

Number of Interfaces: 4

Specification Version: PCIe 3.0

Process Node and Technology

Process Node: 14 nm

8 users

4 x 2.5 GE + 5 GE + 10 GE