With technological innovations increasing by leaps and bounds, Wi-Fi 7 bears the responsibility of giving the best wireless network to enjoy instances like 8K video streaming, social cloud-based gaming, and low-latency extended reality (XR). All are feasible with Qualcomm’s new Wi-Fi 7 capable chipsets that are part of its ‘Immersive Home’ platform series. With Qualcomm leading 27% of the total Wi-Fi chipset market, Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E-enabled chipsets are already over the globe. Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 shares the same architecture as their enterprise-driven ‘Pro’ series but is tuned to be used in a house. With a peak speed of 33 Gbps in the ‘Pro’ series, Qualcomm has tried to capture both industrial and homebody audiences.
Some notable features of Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7:
If we talk about the features, there are some very highlighted ones, like increasing the channel bandwidth to 320 MHz. What it means is that in Wi-Fi 6E, the use of wide-channel spectrum started getting popular in regions where it was available, Wi-Fi 7 doubles the possible channel bandwidth to 320 MHz, doubling the theoretical capacity and improving data transfer speed remarkably. Another tremendously useful feature is the Multi-link Technology. Depending on regional accessibility, the high band support by access points may be two channels in the 5 GHz band or one in each 5 or 6 GHz band. But with Multi-link technology, the device will get multiple options to use these channels. The channels can be used in an Alternating Multi-link where the device switches between two channels depending on the congestion hence lowering latency or High Band Simultaneous Multi-Link, where high bands are used simultaneously, aggregating their outputs. With high-performance characteristics like these and Multi-Link Mesh, 4K QAM, and Adoptive Interference Puncturing, Qualcomm is ready to ship Wi-Fi 7 technology to available home routers and mesh devices in the second half of 2023.
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