Qualcomm and Facebook provide high-speed Internet connectivity in urban areas based on the 60GHz band

May 21, 2018, San Diego - Qualcomm Incorporated today announced through its subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Facebook that the two parties are collaborating to provide high-speed Internet connectivity. The collaboration leverages Facebook's Terragraph technology and is based on Qualcomm Technologies' 60GHz technology. Developed with a multi-node wireless system to achieve. Through cooperation with leading operators and manufacturers, the ground connection system aims to increase the speed, efficiency and quality of global Internet connectivity, and the cost is far lower than fiber deployment. Qualcomm Technologies will be Facebook’s Terragraph Technology integrates pre-802.11ay chips in its QCA6438 and QCA6428 series. This collaboration will enable manufacturers to build 60GHz millimeter-wave solutions, utilize license-free 60GHz spectrum, and provide fixed wireless access (FWA) for urban consumption. Providing high-speed broadband connections. The two parties are expected to start testing of integrated solutions by mid-2019.

Facebook's Terragraph technology supports broadband connections over networks based on millimeter-wave wireless backhaul. The technology is based on the pre-802.11ay standard, Qualcomm Technologies' chips, and integrated software from Facebook and Qualcomm Technologies to provide enhanced features to support efficient outdoor operations. To avoid dense environment interference. Specifically, Qualcomm Technologies introduced several enhancements to optimize its solution for outdoor backhaul optimization, including TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) based protocols, time synchronization nodes, channel bonding and Large-scale antenna arrays, etc., can overcome large obstacles in dense urban environments, provide high-capacity coverage, and have the potential to reduce costs and accelerate time-to-market.

Irvind Ghai, vice president of product management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., said: "Our partnership with Facebook will bring advanced 11ad and pre-11ay technology to the market, increase broadband penetration, and reduce operators' The cost of one-mile access. By combining the Terragraph cloud controller, the 10Gbps link rate of the TDMA architecture with the Qualcomm Technologies solution, low power consumption, and early-phase interference suppression technology can help drive Gigabit connectivity into reality.

Yael Maguire, vice president of Facebook Connect, said: 'We are very pleased to cooperate with Qualcomm Technologies to promote the prevalence of pre-802.11ay and 802.11ad 60GHz technologies and to build a robust ecosystem based on Terragraph interoperability solutions. Using Terragraph technology, our goal It is to make urban residents get high quality connections, help create new opportunities and improve many communities. '