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To improve in-home wireless connectivity in the next generation of residential Wi-fi gateways, device manufacturers are turning to a new switched-beam, smart antenna technology from Airgain to improve wireless connectivity.

Airgain’s MaxBeam75 antenna design with patented SmartGain beam-switching technology is an internal smart antenna that triples the signal strength and doubles the coverage over external omnidirectional antennas. Until now, such dipole antennas have been the industry standard, broadcasting their signals constantly in all directions, wasting energy, congesting the unlicensed spectrum and being susceptible to interference from such everyday sources as microwave ovens, cordless phones and neighboring Wi-Fi networks.

Airgain’s MaxBeam75 multi-element antenna with SmartGain software focuses radio energy into a beam, rapidly steers it 360 degrees, and directs connectivity to those clients that need it, even directing the signal around obstacles for optimal connectivity in multipath environments. The result is better range and higher throughput, plus fewer consumer frustrations resulting from interrupted or poor connectivity.

Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG, recently selected the Airgain MaxBeam75 for its Gigaset^® SE567 and SE568 residential ADSL2+ wireless gateways.

“Reliable wireless connectivity in every room is essential for our customers’ next-generation wireless gateways if they are going to deliver voice, video and data seamlessly and to multiple client devices in various locations around the home,” says Airgain President and CEO Pertti Visuri, Ph.D. “For this reason, broadband Internet service providers and device manufacturers are using our technology in a new generation of Wi-fi equipment that won’t let the user down.”