Teledyne LeCroy's Frontline X500e Wireless Sniffer Captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 Traffic Simultaneously

Teledyne LeCroy is enabling the development of the latest wireless devices and connected applications with the launch of the Frontline X500e wireless protocol analyzer with Wi-Fi 7. For any application involving Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 802.15.4-based technologies (including Matter, Thread, and Zigbee), or wired interfaces such as HCI-UART, USB, SPI, and Audio I2S, the X500e delivers precise insights for network professionals.

“Find My” type solutions will be available on more Android devices thanks to Qualcomm Technologies’ first single chip solution to integrate Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and Ultra Wideband (UWB) technologies, enabling seamless proximity experiences such as digital key, object finding and indoor navigation. But FastConnect 7900 is also ready to power new audio, low-power product designs using Bluetooth LE Audio, Qualcomm’s XPAND (Wi-Fi, BLE convergence) and AI-enabled processing.

One of technology's greatest success stories celebrates a quarter century. 2024 marks a significant milestone in the history of technological innovation as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of Wi-Fi. The technology that enabled wireless networking and still leads in comparison with any other wireless topology and technology, Wi-Fi is today an essential component of home entertainment, ready to evolve to new heights.

To complicate an extremely busy week in technology news, the Wi-Fi Alliance decided to announce the release of its certification for Wi-Fi 7, which is the closest thing the organization offers as its official release. Although already implemented in a large number of products by many manufacturers, Wi-Fi 7 - or IEEE 802.11be - didn't exactly exist until this announcement. And this is a big one for wireless audio, bringing greater capacity, and less latency.

MediaTek, one of the first adopters of the upcoming Wi-Fi 7 technology, now has the industry's most comprehensive Wi-Fi 7 portfolio with the introduction of the latest Filogic 860 and Filogic 360 solutions. Together, these second-generation additions aim to further expand MediaTek's platform of cutting-edge products that utilize the latest technology advancements in connectivity while achieving peak performance and always-on reliability.

During the electronica 2022 show in Munich, Germany, Renesas Electronics unveiled plans to deliver a comprehensive set of advanced Wi-Fi offerings to complement its broad portfolio of industrial and connected products. In 2021, Renesas completed its acquisition of Celeno, a company from Israel specializing in wireless communication solutions, including advanced Wi-Fi chipsets for high-performance home networks, and is leveraging that technology to address a wide range WLAN access point applications for Wi-Fi 6/6E and Wi-Fi 7.