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MaxLinear's Sierra™ radio platform earned the 2026 Leading Lights Award from Light Reading, recognizing its innovation in advancing Open RAN and making next-generation radio development more accessible.

Written by Giovanni Geraci, Francesca Meneghello, Francesc Wilhelmi, David López-Pérez, Iñaki Val, Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Carlos Cordeiro, Monisha Ghosh, Edward Knightly, and Boris Bellalta, the IEEE paper titled “Wi-Fi: 25 Years and Counting” offers the most comprehensive tutorial ever published on the evolution of Wi-Fi—from its early beginnings to the upcoming Wi-Fi 8 era.

Sierra enables Zenlynx to deliver compact, low-power, single-band & multi-band indoor O-RUs for scalable enterprise and neutral-host Open RAN deployments.

Iñaki Val, Luis Muñoz, Diego Arlandis, Marcos Martínez, and Sigurd Schelstraete from MaxLinear, together with David López-Pérez and Aleksandra Kijanka from the Universitat Politècnica de València, have co-authored a major IEEE paper, “Wi-Fi 8 Unveiled: Key Features, Multi-AP Coordination, and the Role of C-TDMA.”

Iñaki Val, Sigurd Schelstraete, and Marcos Martinez from MaxLinear’s Standards Engineering team, together with Rubayet Shafin, Yue Qi, Peshal Nayak, Vishnu V. Ratnam, Bilal Sadiq, and Boon Loong Ng from Samsung Research America, have co-authored a groundbreaking white paper: “Multi-Device Experience With Peer-to-Peer Connectivity in IEEE 802.11bn (Wi-Fi 8)”

Jagdish Kaushik, Senior Principal Engineer at MaxLinear and Peter Jones, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco have co-authored an Ethernet Alliance white paper titled: Why 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T?