Accelerated timeline Despite the great testing results, the technology is months and months away from mainstream adoption. Cordeiro suggested Wi-Fi 7 could be available toward the end of the year, but it is more likely that it won’t be until 2024 before the technology reaches enterprise-level equipment. However, Qualcomm may speed things up – so to speak. In December, the company unveiled its newest high-performance network offering for the home, the Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Home Platform. Built to support the latest high-speed broadband connections and a variety of high-performance devices populating today’s hyper-connected homes, the Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Platform delivers more than 20Gbps of system capacity in a compact, power-efficient, cost-effective network chipset architecture, said the company. The platform introduces Qualcomm Multi-Link Mesh, which the company calls a breakthrough in home networking connectivity ushering in a new era of extremely high throughput and realtime responsiveness. “We developed the Qualcomm Immersive Home Platform to enable high-performance connectivity in a cost-effective, low-profile form factor delivering the newest innovations in Differences Between Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 Features Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E Wi-Fi 7 • Standard IEEE 802.11ax IEEE 802.11be • Launch date 2019 (Wi-Fi 6), 2021 (Wi-Fi 6E) 2024 • Data rate (Maximum) 9.6 Gbps 46 Gbps • Frequency Bands 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, 6 GHz (supported by WiFi 6E) 1 to 7.25 GHz (Includes all the three bands viz. 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz) • Security WPA 3 WPA 3 • Channel Size 20, 40, 80, 80+80, 160 MHz Up to 320 MHz • Modulation 1024 QAM with OFDMA 4096 QAM with OFDMA (extensions) • MIMO Supports MU-MIMO (multiuser MIMO), 8 data streams simultaneously Supports CMU-MIMO i.e. Coordinated Multi-User MIMO, 16 data streams on all three frequencies simultaneously • Resource Allocation Single RU Multi-RU Source: IEEE; Wi-Fi Alliance; Intel; Cisco 65 JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2023 | CHANNELV ISION PLATINUM SPONSORS
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