OREANDA-NEWS. Quantenna Communications, Inc., a leader in ultra-reliable Wi-Fi networking for whole-home entertainment, announced today that it received the prestigious Start-up to Watch award at the 2013 Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Awards Dinner Celebration on December 12th. The awards are presented annually to outstanding semiconductor companies worldwide that have demonstrated excellence through their success, vision and strategy in the industry.

Quantenna 802.11ac and 802.11n Wi-Fi solutions deliver the performance, speed and reliability of wired Ethernet for multimedia data anywhere in the home. Quantenna pioneered the delivery of seamless video over Wi-Fi and has shipped millions of its Wi-Fi chipsets being deployed by major telco, cable and satellite service providers and operators worldwide including AT&T and DirecTV.

“We are honored that GSA and our semiconductor peers have recognized Quantenna as the company that positively changed the semiconductor industry and Wi-Fi market by delivering innovative Wi-Fi ,” said Dr. Sam Heidari, CEO, Quantenna. “We have a field-proven track record, evidenced by the fact that we were the first-to-market with 4x4 architecture with MU-MIMO technology, dynamic-digital beamforming and support for four spatial streams to deliver unsurpassed performance, range and reliability and most importantly, the successful deployments of our service provider partners. We continue to deliver Wi-Fi solutions that transmit faster, reach farther and serve more devices more reliably than any other Wi-Fi solution ever created.”

GSA's Private Awards Committee, comprised of members of the Emerging Company CEO Council, venture capitalists and select serial entrepreneurs in the industry, selects winners of the Start Up to Watch award by identifying the semiconductor company that demonstrates the potential to positively change its market or the semiconductor industry, in general, through the innovative use of semiconductor technology or a new application for semiconductor technology.