Taoglas has launched a new 5G millimeter wave beam steering antenna for the 27.5 to 28.35 GHz 5G band. According to Taoglas, the KSF.410 is the industry’s first antenna using new beam steering chipsets from Analog Devices (ADI).

Taoglas’ beam steering technology, combining the KSF.410 array and ADI chipset, works with an algorithm to achieve dynamic beam steering, with robust amplitude and phase control and fine beam tuning. This helps increase link quality to deliver the best signal propagation and reception.

The KSF.410 is a 16-element array with amplitude and phase control at each element, achieving wide azimuth coverage of ±60 degrees beam scanning and peak antenna gain of 17 dBi. With amplification, the gain is 31 dBi. The antenna is in a compact 105 mm x 35 mm x 1 mm package.

Taoglas says the company’s beam steering technology changes the economics of next-generation wireless networks by extending coverage and increasing throughput exponentially, requiring less equipment.

“Beam-steering is critical to 5G, allowing operators to extend coverage of 5G networks and achieve higher throughput without additional infrastructure investment. Taoglas was early to market with beam-steering technology in our groundbreaking Taoglas Shift™ antenna for sub-6 GHz applications, and now we have beam steering at NR mmWave with the KSF.410. The availability of production-quality beam-steering chipsets from a company like Analog Devices at production prices is a testament to just how quickly the 5G market is maturing. Now customers developing fixed wireless access gateways for 5G networks can integrate our Shift Sub-6 GHz and the KSF.410 NR millimeter wave antennas quickly into their products to be first to market. Our engineering teams will work with the device manufacturer to get the product integrated, optimized and tested quickly.” — Ronan Quinlan, co-CEO and co-founder of Taoglas

Taoglas discussed the company’s 5G beam steering products at the MWC Barcelona 2019 and Embedded World conferences.