The industry's first interoperable Wi-Fi 7 solution, shown by Intel and Broadcom, claims to achieve over-the-air rates of over 5Gbps between an Intel-powered laptop and a Broadcom Wi-Fi 7 access point.
The demonstration was designed to demonstrate how new wireless network technology improves upon the existing generation while also demonstrating that two chipmakers have the hardware for Wi-Fi ready to go. Executives from Intel and Broadcom demonstrated the new technology's readiness with speed indicators, demonstrating how much faster Wi-Fi 7 is than Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E.
next 10 years of wireless experiences," claims Intel and Broadcom.
WiFi 7 promises to provide five times the bandwidth of WiFi 6E, which supports up to 2Gbps. In addition, Intel said during the demonstration that the next-generation wireless would provide 15 times better latency for augmented reality applications and a worst-case latency improvement of 100 times.
Vijay Nagarajan, vice president, Wireless Connectivity Division, Broadcom, said: "Today's milestone sends a clear message: the ecosystem is ready and Wi-Fi 7 is available to enable unprecedented capacity and blazing fast speeds to extend gigabit broadband."
In comparison to the current version, Wi-Fi 7 offers a number of improvements, including bigger 320MHz channels in the 6GHz sector of the wireless spectrum and 4K QAM modulation, which offers greater data rates.
The platform "for the next-generation wireless network," or Wi-Fi 7, will
You shouldn't get too enthused right away, though, as Wi-Fi 7 compatible hardware is not anticipated to be available until the end of 2023.
