Topaz combines fiber access, packet processing, AI/ML acceleration, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness, and intelligent power management into a single, highly integrated SoC. Topaz is designed to minimize market trade-offs—reducing system complexity, lowering bill-of-materials (BOM) costs, and accelerating time-to-market for OEMs and operators worldwide.

Topaz is optimized for PON Fiber Gateways, Ethernet, and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) deployments. It provides processing performance, memory bandwidth, and connectivity required for next-generation gateways, including Wi-Fi 8, and AI-enabled services, while enabling upgrades to future multi-gigabit access technologies beyond 10G. Built with a secure-by-design approach, Topaz is designed to support compliance with leading cybersecurity frameworks and regulations, including NIST IR 8425A (U.S.), Radio Equipment Directive (RED), and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) (EU).

From a technology differentiation perspective Topaz combines broadband access, packet processing, AI acceleration, advanced security, intelligent power management, and low-latency networking technologies such as L4S and Dual-Queue AQM into a single highly integrated SoC. This integration reduces system complexity, lowers BOM costs, and accelerates product development while enabling differentiated operator services.

The Topaz family provides a scalable portfolio that allows OEMs and operators to optimize system cost and performance for specific applications, ranging from cost-efficient residential gateways to premium multi-gigabit, converged broadband platforms. A common architecture across the family enables extensive hardware and software reuse while preserving flexibility to address diverse market requirements.

Sharing a common software and hardware foundation with MaxLinear's Puma™ 9 DOCSIS® platform, Topaz enables significant code, feature, and development reuse across Cable, Fiber, Ethernet, and FWA product portfolios. This unified platform approach, also known as AnyWAN, shortens software development cycles, simplifies portfolio management, and helps operators rapidly adopt new technologies while reducing engineering investment and long-term support costs.

Platform Architecture & Performance

Purpose-Built for 10G PON & Beyond: Delivers high-efficiency performance for current 10G deployments while establishing a scalable, long-term architecture for next-generation tiers. High-speed 25G and 50G connectivity, DDR5 memory support, and low latency packet processing are designed to provide long-term headroom for network growth.
Wi-Fi 8 Ready Infrastructure: Provides the high processing performance, memory bandwidth, and interconnect speeds required to drive deterministic, ultra-low-latency Wi-Fi 8 wireless networks. Topaz handles dense, multi-gigabit traffic across connected home and business environments while minimizing bottlenecks.
All-in-One High-Integration SoC: Consolidates multi-gigabit fiber access, packet routing, AI/ML acceleration, and advanced security on a single chip. This single-chip design can eliminate the need for separate multi-processor architectures, lowering bill-of-materials (BOM) costs, reducing physical design footprints, and shortening development cycles.
Low Power Consumption: Features integrated PHYs and Dynamic Power Management (DPM) technology that dynamically scales energy use based on real-time traffic loads. The SoC minimizes power during idle periods while maintaining instant line-rate responsiveness, helping operators meet strict ERP mandates and sustainability goals.
Future-Proof Security & Innovation

Hardware-Grade Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness: Optimized for the long deployment lifecycles associated with fiber infrastructure investments, Topaz incorporates advanced hardware-based security technologies and readiness for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The platform helps operators address emerging cyber threats, evolving security regulations, and requirements such as the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
Open Ecosystem & Unified Software: Designed around open standards, especially those championed by the prpl Foundation’s prplWare, as well as supporting RDK, Topaz provides maximum application portability. Sharing a common architecture with MaxLinear’s Puma 9 DOCSIS® platform, the device allows operators and OEMs to unify cable and fiber gateway codebases.
AI & Next-Gen Service Acceleration: Integrates local compute and AI/ML engines to power intelligent edge services allowing both local as well as hybrid solutions together with extended cloud processing. AI-assisted home network diagnostics including preemptive analysis, pre-processed and compressed network statistics as well as AI-enabled security and QoS optimize the operators’ network operations and provide improved customer quality of experience.
Optimized for Low Latency: The upgraded packet processing engine is optimized to minimize packet delay inside the gateway. The accelerated data path now also includes a hardware-based dual-queue AQM implementation for L4S, bridging the gap between new L4S-enabled services and the network infrastructure.