LTE -- What Voice Services?     by Jose Deras       Home         Topics: Main | DSL | VoIP | Wi-Fi | WiMax | Ethernet  |  40 Gbps | Financials | Optical Silicon | People | Start-ups | Europe | Japan | Acquisitions of Silicon Companies | Silicon Directory | Archive   Swisscom Invests in Quantenna for Whole-Home 4x4 MIMO Swisscom has made a strategic investment in Quantenna Communications, a start-up developing silicon for high-speed, wireless high definition (HD) video home networking. The investment expands Quantenna's Series C funding round, which also includes previous announced investors Grazia Equity, Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. To date, Quantenna has raised over $44 million. Quantenna leverages dynamic digital beamforming to deliver very high-speed wireless coverage throughout the whole home for sharing high definition (HD) video and multimedia content between home gateways and TVs. Quantenna's silicon is targeted at devices such as home residential gateways, set-top boxes, routers, HDTVs and consumer electronic devices, which all require high bandwidth and reliability to support whole home HD video distribution and networking over standard Wi-Fi networks. http://www.quantenna.com 27-Jul-09 In May, Quantenna Communications named David French as its new CEO, succeeding Dr. Behrooz Rezvani, who will continue his role as president of Quantenna and chairman of the Board of Directors. French brings more than three decades of semiconductor experience to Quantenna. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Cirrus Logic Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor public company. Under French's leadership, Cirrus Logic emerged as a world leader in audio integrated circuits, such as audio converters and audio digital signal processors, as well as industrial mixed-signal and embedded ICs. Prior to Cirrus Logic, French was the vice president and general manager at Analog Devices Inc. Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site Recent Silicon News Vitesse Outlines Ethernet Chip Roadmap for 2010 Telegent's Latest Analog Mobile TV Chip -- 6x6mm Juniper Previews New Core Silicon to Enable 4 Tbps Routers Broadcom Reports Record Quarterly Revenue of $1.343 billion Broadcom Debuts 10GbE Converged-NIC Broadcom Releases Power 40nm 10GBASE-T PHYs Broadcom to Acquire Teknovus for EPON Silicon Altair and SkyCross Announce LTE Cooperation Marvell Introduces EPON, 10G EPON and GPON Chips Luxtera and Siemon Integrate 40 Gbps Chips into Active Optical Cabling Freescale Revenues Rise in Q4 to $951 Million PMC-Sierra's Q4 Revenues Increase 15.4% Year over Year Criminal Charges Dismissed for Broadcom's Founder Qualcomm Reports Revenues $2.7 Billion, Trims Outlook on 3G Chip Prices Altair Teams with ANADIGICS on LTE > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published LTE -- What Voice Services? by Jose Deras Framing the Next Wave of Carrier Ethernet by Umesh Kukreja Network Interconnection and Evolution for Super Carriers by Dawn M. Hogh Carrier Challenges for Tomorrow's Connected Enterprise by Dr. Badri Nath Dynamic Performance Management for Mobile Data Networks by Michael J. Schabel, Ph.D. To 4G or not to 4G: Supporting Exponential Mobile Traffic Growth by Joe Schraml