On Tuesday, Qualcomm unveiled its Immersive Home Wi-Fi 7 platform. This is a marketing concept to name two new processors designed and optimized for mesh home Wi-Fi systems (so-called Mesh systems in English).
The new platforms operate in the 5GHz and 6GHz bands with support for 240MHz and 320Mhz channels, resulting in more spectrum available for Wi-Fi 7 devices.
Qualcomm claims that its Wi-Fi 7 platforms will have a total capacity of 20 Gbps, a speed that seems important, but as we now stream video, play online video games. And that we may be adopting in a big way augmented reality and virtual reality devices. And there that very high throughput capability will be needed to provide a low latency experience.
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A new Multi-Link Mesh function
Qualcomm is also introducing a new Multi-Link Mesh feature for its Wi-Fi 7 platform that will benefit mesh nodes, non-Wi-Fi 7 devices as well as Wi-Fi 7 devices, by dynamically switching between spectrum and available channels to facilitate communication between nodes, but also to provide more throughput and bandwidth to devices as needed.
Currently, mesh networks have a dedicated backbone connection that is not shared with other devices on the network.
According to Qualcomm, Wi-Fi 7 can deliver speeds of up to 5.8 Gbps to a single device. If you have such a fast connection at home, I admit I’m jealous.
Qualcomm has started working with its hardware partners and mesh Wi-Fi makers to integrate Wi-Fi 7 into their systems, and says we can expect to see mesh systems updated with Wi-Fi 7 in the future. second half of 2023.
Source: “ZDNet.com”