Dubai: Linksys has introduced Velop in a bid to provide fast and reliable Wi-Fi to the edge of a home network. It is small enough to be unobtrusively placed.
It serves as a router, range extender, access point and bridge which provides users the technology they need as they bring new and more devices into the home.
It comes with single, dual and triple nodes. Each node is configured during set-up by the accompanying Linksys app (iOS and Android), which provides the simplest and most intuitive set-up leveraging Bluetooth to securely communicate between the mobile device and each node.
Each node is a small tower standing just seven inches in height.
Amanulla Khan, managing director for Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Linksys Division, said with traditional routers and range extender combinations or dual-band modular mesh systems, the Wi-Fi speed is cut in half with each “hop” from one access point to the next. This results in users receiving only a fraction of their broadband internet speed at the edge of the network.
“If you are paying for 100 Mbps from your internet service provider, then you want to get all that speed in every corner of your house. With Velop, users get the same speed across the devices”, he said.
The vertical orientation also has performance benefits.
He said the six antennas are placed at the top and middle of the unit, some pushing the signal up and down and others pushing signal left and right.
Velop also works with Amazon Alexa to provide a voice assistant. Three new elements will be available after the launch including turning guest access on and off, obtaining the guest Wi-Fi name and password, and getting main network credentials, which are commonly forgotten.
Velop is powered by Qualcomm chip with three Wi-Fi radios (one 2.4GHz and two 5.0GHz) and two auto-sensing LAN/WAN Gigabit ports. This is complemented by 4GB of memory, 512MB DDR3 memory and a Bluetooth 4.0/LE radio.
