ASUS Announces Blue Cave

ASUS has just launched their new Blue Cave wireless router for the Singapore market. These routers are currently available at CEE 2018, at an introductory price S$299. Do look out for our upcoming review of the ASUS Blue Cave, and find out how it is different from any other routers out in the market!

Award-winning dual-band AC2600 router
for smart homes combines powerful Wi-Fi and comprehensive family security with
a uniquely elegant design

Singapore, 17 May, 2018 — ASUS today
announced Blue Cave, a stunningly designed high-performance AC2600 Wi-Fi router
based on Intel’s connected home technology that’s built to meet the demanding
needs of modern smart homes.

Winner of a
2017 Computex Best Choice Golden Award, Blue Cave is an easy-to-use, innovatively
designed router with stylish good looks and family-friendly features. It’s
built to cope easily with the increasingly complex and bandwidth-heavy demands
of smart home networks, offering superb multi-device performance powered by the
Intel® Home Wi-Fi chipset, comprehensive commercial-grade security
with ASUS AiProtection, and out-of-the-box IoT integration with Amazon Alexa
and IFTTT.

“Combining
years of ASUS experience in wireless innovation and Intel’s connected home
technology, Blue Cave delivers ultrafast Wi-Fi speeds throughout the home,”
said Tenlong Deng, General Manager, ASUS Networking and Wireless Devices
Business Unit. “Not only powerful, its eye-catching design with no external
antennas blends perfectly with any décor.”

Blue Cave also
offers easy PC-free network control, via the intuitive ASUS Router mobile app
for Android and iOS devices.

Blue Cave combines
ASUS engineering and Intel’s home Wi-Fi technology to deliver ultrafast
AC2600-class concurrent dual-band Wi-Fi speeds throughout the home, ensuring
smooth 4K UHD video streaming and gaming, and fast file downloads. With Intel
technology, the router has more than enough capacity to handle the simultaneous
data demands of the multiple devices found in today’s smart homes and dedicated
bandwidth for software and security features.

“Consumers are
bringing more connected devices into their homes and need a network that can
keep up now and in the future,” said Dan Artusi, Vice President and General Manager,
Intel’s Connected Home Division. “We are collaborating with the industry to
transform home connectivity and unleash a new era of smart home
experiences.  With a unique, eye-catching
design, ASUS Blue Cave is a great example of an innovative solution based on
Intel technology that fits into lifestyle aesthetics while delivering top
performance.”

Blue Cave’s
unique styling and powerful performance are both made possible by our
sophisticated Wi-Fi engineering. Internal antennas are often a compromise: they
allow a neater external design, but they can be prone to performance-sapping
interference. In Blue Cave, the location and orientation of the four
fully-optimized antennas relative to each other and to the internal circuitry
was carefully decided by experiment to give the best possible Wi-Fi signal in
all directions.

Blue Cave
has a strikingly compact design that fits anywhere. To achieve its small size,
ASUS engineers reduced the footprint of the internal circuit board by creating
a special two-layer design. Additionally, a custom heat sink coated with
graphene provides maximum surface area for heat-dissipation, enabling a smaller
overall size.

Blue Cave
incorporates AiProtection, the first commercial-grade security for home
networks. AiProtection, powered by Trend Micro™, is free for the life
of the product, and protects every connected smart device on the network,
including IoT devices.

Blue Cave
incorporates Advanced Parental Controls, allowing users to keep a watchful eye
on the family’s internet usage, and decide how much internet time or what apps
each family member is allowed. State-of-the-art parental controls let users block
specific categories of mobile apps and websites — and apply these settings to
all devices belonging to a family member — while allowing free access to the
rest of the internet.

To make the
protection even more complete, Blue Cave includes a year’s free Trend Micro™
Mobile Security for two mobile devices and Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+ for
two Windows PCs. Redemption instructions are included in the box. This offer is
available until December 31, 2018.

Blue Cave is
a smart router for smart homes. It offers out-of-the-box support for IFTTT and Amazon
Alexa, so users can easily integrate Blue Cave into a smart home to make their
lives easier. For example, a user could just tell Alexa to suspend the Wi-Fi during
a family dinner to prevent interruptions, or use IFTTT to get an automatic
email notification when children arrive home. Blue Cave enables endless
possibilities for smart living.

Blue Cave
takes the pain out of managing a home network. It’s easy to set up and easy to
keep an eye on what’s happening, via the intuitive PC interface or the ASUS
Router mobile app. With just a few taps or clicks, users can see when new
devices connect or when new updates become available, and change router
settings to suit their needs.

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ASUS
is one of Fortune magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies, and is dedicated
to creating products for today and tomorrow’s smart life. Our comprehensive portfolio
includes Zenbo, ZenFone, ZenBook and a range of IT devices and components,
along with AR, VR and IoT. ASUS employs more than 17,000 people worldwide and
over 5,500 world-class R&D talents. Driven by innovation and committed to
quality, the company won 4,385 awards and earned approximately US$13.3 billion
of revenue in 2016.

Intel
is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.