Delivering next-generation Spectrum Slicing for IoT and Wi-Fi applications
Delivering next-generation Spectrum Slicing for IoT and Wi-Fi applications
Project
Edgewater Wireless is leading a project to develop a new Wi-Fi chip that improves speed, reliability, and efficiency for today’s connected world. The project is shaped by extensive input from large-scale users across residential, business, and industrial IoT sectors. Their real-world challenges are helping guide a solution that supports more devices, reduces delays, and uses less power—making everyday internet use better for everyone.
"Our Spectrum Slicing technology represents a made-in-Canada innovation that directly addresses the growing global demand for faster, more reliable, and energy-efficient wireless connectivity... By leading the development of a next-generation Wi-Fi chip, we’re not only advancing Canada’s presence in the global semiconductor sector—we’re creating technology shaped by real-world input from residential, business, and industrial IoT users. Their challenges are our roadmap. The result is a solution that supports more devices, reduces latency, and improves power efficiency—delivering better performance for everything from smart homes to enterprise networks and critical industrial systems."
— Andrew Skafel, CEO, Edgewater Wireless
Edgewater Wireless
We make Wi-Fi. Better.
Edgewater Wireless is redefining Wi-Fi from the silicon up—delivering standards-leading innovations that create strategic value for next-generation connectivity platforms and semiconductor licensing partners. With 26 granted patents and a fabless business model, Edgewater Wireless pioneered Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing, a breakthrough technology purpose-built to address the surging global demand for higher-capacity, lower-latency wireless networks. Edgewater is supercharging the economics of Wi-Fi. At a time when incremental performance gains are no longer enough, Spectrum Slicing offers a transformative leap: enabling multiple concurrent channels within a single frequency band. The result— 10x or greater performance and 50% lower latency—benefits all devices, including legacy hardware, without requiring changes to the client side. This architecture delivers scalable, infrastructure-friendly gains across residential, enterprise, and IoT environments. Our technology is deeply aligned with the evolving standards and shaped by collaboration with Tier-one service providers, enterprises and industry bodies.
Project Metrics
"FABrIC funding is instrumental in helping Edgewater Wireless accelerate our silicon production roadmap, reduce our time to market, and create high-value engineering roles in Canada. This support enables us to build a stronger team and scale our efforts to commercialize Canadian-designed Wi-Fi solutions globally."
— Edgewater Wireless
Edgewater Wireless
Delivering next-generation Spectrum Slicing for IoT and Wi-Fi applications
Targeted Industry/ies:
Digital Technologies & Telecommunications
Product Development
Round 1
Kanata
Ontario
$921,000