Celeno Debuts Its ControlAIR Wi-Fi Management Software to Ensure Exceptional Performance in the Home of Tomorrow

Celeno Debuts Its ControlAIR Wi-Fi Management Software to Ensure Exceptional Performance in the Home of Tomorrow

Technology allows robust multi-Gbps Wi-Fi service in the home by efficiently deploying multiple smart Wi-Fi access points and extenders

LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    Celeno Communications [http://www.celeno.com ], a leading provider of high-performance
Wi-Fi chips and software for demanding home networking applications, today announced the
availability of their advanced enterprise-grade ControlAIR(TM) multi-AP Wi-Fi controller
for the home network. The industry-first technology enables "zero-touch" provisioning and
self-optimizing Wi-Fi throughput in the home across multiple smart Wi-Fi access points,
repeaters, extenders, IoT hubs and gateways. The result is a dramatically improved user
experience with a smarter distribution of Wi-Fi capacity throughout the home. Targeting
service providers and OEMs, Celeno is integrating its ControlAIR software suite with RDK-B
industry-standard Gateway software framework.

    Traditionally, service providers and consumers deployed a single Wi-Fi Access Point in
the home to provide internet access wirelessly. With the increase in broadband speeds, the
overload on access points (with 10s of connected Wi-Fi devices in a typical home) and the
laws of physics which dictate a degraded Wi-Fi signal quality the larger the house, Wi-Fi
has become the "last mile" bottleneck. To deliver a true Gbps bi-directional Wi-Fi home
network enabling 4K and HD video streaming, video uploads, file shares, cloud storage and
more to every device in the home, a new approach has to be taken.

    "With ControlAIR, we haven't just improved the Wi-Fi experience for consumers and
providers, we've actually solved one of the biggest industry-wide problems of our time and
changed the conventional wisdom of the industry," said Gilad Rozen, Founder and CEO of
Celeno. "We believe that the best solution to allow for Gbps wireless networks in the home
is to deploy managed multi-access point home networks rather than invest in endlessly
beefing up single access points. Celeno developed ControlAIR to optimize performance and
connectivity across such a multi-AP home network to bring Gbps Wi-Fi to consumer devices
efficiently and cost effectively." 

    ControlAIR is the industry's only effective software solution to increase throughput
using multiple access points in the home by adding smart cluster connectivity and dynamic
Radio Resource Management (RRM) addressing the move towards a "Small cells" Wi-Fi network
or "Sprinklers" architecture for the wireless home of tomorrow. The ControlAIR software
allows for wireless home networks that offer vastly improved coverage, expanded capacity
and speeds that consistently exceed one Gigabit per second. ControlAIR also allows
increased power efficiency and less induced interference on adjacent networks.

    The ControlAIR software includes the following modules:

    1. Connectivity management - self-optimizes the effective throughput to each Wi-Fi
client device in the home by dynamically steering it to the right access point and even
radio band. In addition the module balances loads between the various access points.
Working in real time it even allows in-home with minimal effect on the connectivity and
user experience.

    2. Radio Resource Management (RRM) - With the unlicensed spectrum becoming more
congested with the introduction of 802.11ac Wi-Fi, managing this scarce resource
intelligently becomes a necessity. ControlAIR software is dynamically changing the radio
parameters of each Access Point in the home to best utilize the available spectrum and
ensure perfect co-existence.

    3. Configuration management - "zero touch" provisioning of all access points in the
home with correct security credentials, Wi-Fi Channels, Wi-Fi SSID names, etc. to ensure
seamless operation and roaming of clients in the home.

    The ControlAIR software agents are embedded in the Wi-Fi Access Point devices in the
home and are also available for use with RDK-B and OpenWRT industry-standard gateway and
router software frameworks. The solution's open architecture has been validated with a
variety of Wi-Fi radio silicon solutions from leading vendors. ControlAIR software first
version will be ready for integration with OEM's devices in the first quarter of 2016.

    ControlAIR will be showcased at CES 2016 in Las Vegas in the Celeno's suite at the
Venetian.

    About Celeno Communications 

    Celeno provides high performance Wi-Fi chips and software for demanding home
networking applications. Celeno's extensive chip portfolio and OptimizAIR(TM) technology
enable the wireless distribution of multiple and simultaneous HD video and data streams
throughout the home with the highest levels of performance and reliability while ensuring
a superlative quality of service and user experience. Celeno's OptimizAIR 2.0(TM)
technology provides unprecedented capabilities to provision and manage both Wi-Fi capacity
and radio spectrum. It enables seamless deployment of rich Wi-Fi services such as home
hotspots, community Wi-Fi, multicast video and over-the-top to the home user. Celeno's
field-proven chips have been integrated into numerous OEM Wi-Fi devices and have been
deployed with over 75 service providers worldwide. Founded in 2005, the company has
offices and representatives in EMEA, the US and Asia-Pacific and is backed by blue chip
investors including Cisco Systems, Greylock IL, Liberty Global, Pitango Venture Capital
and Vintage Investment Partners. http://www.celeno.com

       
         
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