Week 8 - BSIT200 - WiFi 7

Seeing as Wi-Fi technology has reached the next peak with 6e, I was curious to see when Wi-Fi 7 would be coming and what differences it would have. Wi-Fi 7 will be defined in the IEEE P802.11be amendment. According to Intel it will have greater than 5 Gbps PC Wi-Fi speeds with consistent ultra-low latency. It will have 320 MHz channels that are twice the size of previous Wi-Fi generations. 4K Quadrature Amplitude Modulation that enables each signal to more densely embed greater amounts of data compared to the 1K QAM of Wi-Fi 6/6e.

I will also have a potential maximum data rate of almost 5.8 Gbps which is 2.4x faster than the 2.4 Gbps that is possible with Wi-Fi 6/6e and also the ability to download 15 GB file in about 25 seconds.

With Multi-Resource Units and Puncturing, it will be able to use other parts of the same high-speed channel not in use to enable very large channels.

It is also speculated to have upgraded security with the eventual WPA4.