Chipset major Qualcomm Technologies today said the Qualcomm Network now comes with new IoT connectivity platform and Wi-Fi SON features.

“IoT Connectivity platform and expanded Wi-Fi SON capabilities address the most fundamental connectivity challenges of IoT while ensuring a broad delivery of our innovations across wired and wireless networks,” said Gopi Sirineni, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies.

At the CES 2017, Qualcomm said its Network IoT Connectivity platform is designed to help ensure, for the first time, compatible and simultaneous use of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, CSRmesh connectivity, and 802.15.4-based technologies across a network.

Qualcomm Network IoT Connectivity platform minimizes complexity and eases fragmentation challenges for manufacturers, developers and consumers.

Every product to date employing a distributed networking architecture is based upon the Qualcomm Network solutions, including the eero home WiFi system, Luma Surround WiFi system, and Netgear Orbi Tri-band WiFi System.

That momentum continues with networking products announced at CES 2017 including the Linksys Velop Whole Home Wi-Fi Solution, D-Link Covr, TP-Link Deco Whole-Home Wi-Fi Systems, and ASUS HiveDot and HiveSpot.

Expansion of Wi-Fi SON capabilities

Qualcomm said the expansion of Wi-Fi SON capabilities support for both wired and wireline-based networks. This update allows network installations dependent on PLC and/or Ethernet, to leverage the same innovative features, regardless of the network medium, that currently define the Wi-Fi implementations of SON.