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There's no shortage of AI products at Computex this year, but MaxLinear had a demo of a router with AI support that kind of makes sense. The company has developed what it simply calls MaxAI, which allows their customers to build their own smartphone all, which is represented by the the left hand side of the screen below. This allows the owner of a router with support for Max AI to give it voice commands, but as the software is aware of the features of the router, it's possible to use it for things like QoS optimisation, speed tests and even for sending system logs to your ISP during a support call. MaxAI is also multilingual, the demo we were shown started out in Mandarin, but was switched to English for the demo and then in the end switched to Japanese.
This might seem like something of a gimmicky feature, but keep in mind that most people don't know how to use a router, from setting it up, to changing any kind of settings. The potential of MaxAI is to allow users to set up their router via voice commands, which to many would be a lot easier, than using an app or logging in to a web interface. However, MaxAI isn't just about controlling your router via voice commands, as MaxLinear has also worked on a new type of QoS, where they don't do deep packet inspection, but instead have trained that AI model to detect patterns of different software. The demo was showing two video streams, one was used to simulate a teams call and by just telling the MaxAI to optimise teams, the video stream went from jerky to smooth. Obviously this assumes that the internet connection is fast enough and it's still just prioritisation, but it works much better compared to traditional QoS.
However, MaxLinear didn't stop there, as the MaxAI can also perform object detection on video and audio from a network connected camera and this is all done locally on the device, as they're taking advantage of an onboard NPU, which means nothing is being sent to a cloud for processing. There are likely to be other possibilities here too, but it would be up to the ISP who will sell and market the final routers to work out what they want to use the MaxAI for and give its users access to.
MaxLinera was also showing a new 16-port 2.5 Gbps switch, which combines a pair of its 8-port MxL862xx-series of switching ICs, much like older 8-port 2.5 Gbps switches combined two 4-port switching ICs. In addition to this, the company now offers a WebSmart UI that runs on a separate SoC, which means that we'll be seeing more managed 2.5 Gbps switches in the future. Some companies such as Draytek have already launched PoE versions, but the sign at their booth suggests we'll also be seeing gaming switches with a management UI. Finally it didn't sound like MaxLinear is looking at doing any 5 Gbps products for now, but it's considering doing some 10 Gbps products, but exactly what those will be wasn't something they wanted to share with us at Computex.
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This might seem like something of a gimmicky feature, but keep in mind that most people don't know how to use a router, from setting it up, to changing any kind of settings. The potential of MaxAI is to allow users to set up their router via voice commands, which to many would be a lot easier, than using an app or logging in to a web interface. However, MaxAI isn't just about controlling your router via voice commands, as MaxLinear has also worked on a new type of QoS, where they don't do deep packet inspection, but instead have trained that AI model to detect patterns of different software. The demo was showing two video streams, one was used to simulate a teams call and by just telling the MaxAI to optimise teams, the video stream went from jerky to smooth. Obviously this assumes that the internet connection is fast enough and it's still just prioritisation, but it works much better compared to traditional QoS.
However, MaxLinear didn't stop there, as the MaxAI can also perform object detection on video and audio from a network connected camera and this is all done locally on the device, as they're taking advantage of an onboard NPU, which means nothing is being sent to a cloud for processing. There are likely to be other possibilities here too, but it would be up to the ISP who will sell and market the final routers to work out what they want to use the MaxAI for and give its users access to.
MaxLinera was also showing a new 16-port 2.5 Gbps switch, which combines a pair of its 8-port MxL862xx-series of switching ICs, much like older 8-port 2.5 Gbps switches combined two 4-port switching ICs. In addition to this, the company now offers a WebSmart UI that runs on a separate SoC, which means that we'll be seeing more managed 2.5 Gbps switches in the future. Some companies such as Draytek have already launched PoE versions, but the sign at their booth suggests we'll also be seeing gaming switches with a management UI. Finally it didn't sound like MaxLinear is looking at doing any 5 Gbps products for now, but it's considering doing some 10 Gbps products, but exactly what those will be wasn't something they wanted to share with us at Computex.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site