AVM Selects Lantiq for New VDSL, Wi-Fi 802.11ac Flagship Gateway

MUNICH and NEUBIBERG, Germany, Oct. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today announced that the Berlin-based communications specialist AVM has selected a Lantiq high integration systems-on-chip (SoC) to power its latest generation flagship VDSL2/2+ gateway FRITZ!Box 7490.

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The Lantiq VDSL SoC enables highest data rates up to 150 Mbps and reliable broadband access performance, featuring VDSL2/2+ / ADSL2/2+ capability and integrated support of ITU-T standard Vectoring. The FRITZ!Box 7490 also achieves outstanding gigabit routing performance with minimum CPU load, due to the unique Lantiq smart acceleration engine.

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Peter Faxel, Executive Vice President Products & Technology, AVM:
"Lantiq offers high-class technology that perfectly fits the performance needs of our top models. This way, our customers enjoy the benefits of excellent quality of service for their broadband connections. Our work with Lantiq's VDSL/ADSL solutions allows us to deliver high-end VDSL Gateways with outstanding Gigabit routing performance."

Dirk Wieberneit, Lantiq Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Business:
"We are delighted to partner with AVM and ship our ultra-fast VRX VDSL chipset family for their new flagship product FRITZ!Box 7490. Lantiq has a long history in DSL and we are enabling our customers to offer vectoring standard compliant VDSL VDSL Gateways with unparalleled routing throughput and a future-proof architecture. All Lantiq equipped boxes in the field can be made fully compliant with the latest VDSL Vectoring standard via simple Firmware download."

Highlights and Benefits

• The Lantiq ITU-T standard compliant VDSL Vectoring solutions enable carriers to deliver up to 150 Mbits access speeds, while Physical Layer Retransmission achieves the highest possible Quality of Service (QoS) for media content.
• The Lantiq VRX VDSL SoC offloads data handling of the 802.11ac Wi-Fi subsystem and features and hardware acceleration for Gbit speed home networking with minimum load on the main CPU.

Availability

Lantiq is shipping its VRX Family in high volumes and the Fritzbox!7490 is already commercially available. 

More information on the 7490 with gigabit speed and the latest vectoring technology for boosted VDSL rates is available at the AVM Newscenter.

About Lantiq

Lantiq offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation network and the digital Home. More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website at: http://www.lantiq.com/company or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube

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