With many of the latest HDTVs having Internet/network connections and capable of multimedia file playback more consumers are choosing to store their multimedia on network attached media servers. A problem with this convenient arrangement is the unreliability of current routers to handle HD video streaming.

Hope for a robust HD streaming solution may lie in Quantenna Communications soon to be released chipset products designed to supercharge current Wi-Fi technology. Their Quantenna High Speed (QHS) familiy of chipsets use beamforming (high-bandwidth data stream is aimed at a specific device), four antennas, vector mesh routing and two or four concurrent frequency bands delivering a blistering throughput of up to 1 Gbps. Another highlight of Quantennas technology mix is that it meets the very low Packet Error Rate (PER) (less than a 0.01 percent) required to avoid video quality degradation.

Quantenna is expecting their QHS chipsets to be production in products such as WLAN access points, DSL home gateways, cable gateways, set-top boxes, flat panel HDTVs, personal video recorders and game consoles by the second quarter of 2009.