Edgewater's spectrum slicing improves Wi-Fi performance in proof-of-concept trial

OTTAWA — Having revealed last week it recently completed a residential proof-of-concept (PoC) project demonstrating its patented Wi-Fi spectrum slicing technology with an unnamed Tier 1 service provider, Ottawa’s Edgewater Wireless Systems today provided more details about the trial. The purpose of the PoC was to compare the current physical layer single-channel architecture offered by today’s Wi-Fi systems, up to and including Wi-Fi 6E, to Edgewater’s patented, physical layer multi-channel Wi-Fi spectrum slicing technology. The major service provider compared industry-standard, dual-frequency, single-channel 802.11AC (Wi-Fi 5) access points to Edgewater’s spectrum slicing architecture configured in six-channel mode, explains Edgewater’s press release....