'This is good news and real progress': FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Office of Engineering and Technology announced the conditional approval of thirteen proposed automated frequency coordination (AFC) database systems in preparation for the testing phase of 6 GHz Wi-Fi operations.
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance also reported that 53% of respondents have already deployed Wi-Fi 6
In its Annual Industry Report 2023, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) found that 53% of service providers, technology vendors and enterprises have deployed Wi-Fi 6, and an additional 44% said...
Wi-Fi 7, thanks to MLO, offers improved quality of service, increased throughput and reduced latency
Wi-Fi 7 has a lot to celebrate; its support of both 320 MHz transmissions — double the 160 MHz of Wi-Fi 6 — and 4096-QAM delivers significant speed increases, while...
Broadcom began sampling an end-to-end Wi-Fi chipset offering in April 2022
Intel and Broadcom teamed up on a Wi-Fi 7 demonstration that utilized the former’s Core processor-based laptop and the latter’s Wi-Fi 7 access point (AP). According to the companies, the test achieved over-the-air speeds greater than 5...
The adoption of 5G continues to thrive in the mobile market, with a raft of device types beyond smartphones set to form part of the wider ecosystem, extending to new industries and a wide array of device categories, including automotive, Extended Reality (XR), Personal...
The big news out of Hannover Messe a couple of weeks back was that there was no news – not from Siemens about private 5G, anyhow. Not real news, at least; just word that its new private 5G system – incorporating home-made 5G core...
The new modules also feature enhanced 5G/Wi-Fi coexistence capabilities
Qualcomm has announced its third-generation of Wi-Fi Front End Modules (FEM), which are integrated RF components that help amplify and route signals between the Wi-Fi System on Chip (SoC) and the antenna. The latest generation...
In April, Broadcom announced it was sampling a complete end-to-end chipset offering for the Wi-Fi 7 ecosystem, further solidifying its early-mover status. Spanning routers, residential gateways, enterprise access points and client devices, the new Wi-Fi 7 chips more than double the speed of Wi-Fi...
Time to set the record straight on cellular 5G and Wi-Fi 6/7, a panel of Industry 4.0 luminaries suggested at Private Networks Forum (PNF) a couple of weeks back; these technologies are not, and never will be, mutually exclusive, it implied. They will not...
Wi-Fi 7 is on the way, bringing huge new capabilities that build on Wi-Fi 6 and 6E. The addition of Multi-Link operation and 320MHz channel support, to name a few, will usher in a new era of high performance wireless connectivity. As a global...
Qualcomm announced its Wi-Fi 7 Pro Series portfolio this week, highlighting the importance of features like 320 MHz channel support, 4K QAM and Multi-Link capabilities.
The chipmaker’s senior vice president and general manager of Wireless Infrastructure and Networking Nick Kucharewski, shared what to expect...
According to Broadcom, you can't put the Wi-Fi cart before the Wi-Fi horse
Broadcom has further solidified its early-mover status with its announcement of the sample availability of a complete end-to-end chipset offering for the Wi-Fi 7 ecosystem. Spanning routers, residential gateways, enterprise access points...
Wi-Fi 7 will maximize gigabit broadband investments by reliably delivering higher throughput, lower latency and better coverage
Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) was developed with a focus on Wi-Fi Extremely High Throughput, which refers to its projected ability to support up to 30 Gbps throughput, roughly...
Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation
In order for unlicensed Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) devices to play nice in the 6 GHz band with the licensed users already occupying that band, the Federal Communications...
Boingo's new facility will serve as a launch pad to test, trial, and demonstrate 5G, Wi-Fi 6/6E, Wi-Fi 7 and IoT pilot programs
Boingo Wireless has announced that it will set up an innovation center in Las Vegas.
The new facility will be located at the...
Wi-Fi 7 will bring new and significant capabilities that will reshape how we use and think about Wi-Fi. As the industry continues to define Wi-Fi 7, one truth about all previous generations is clear: implementation will drive differentiation. With an eye toward realizing the...
4K QAM boosts the peak rates to increase throughput and capacity compared to Wi-Fi systems using 1K QAM modulation
Beyond support for up to 30 Gbps throughput, 320-megahertz channels and multi-link capabilities, Wi-Fi 7, or 802.11be, will also have 4096-QAM (4K QAM), up from 1024-QAM...
Multi-link capability is one of the core aspects of Wi-Fi 7, according to Qualcomm’s VP and GM of Mobile and Compute Connectivity
There are several proposed features for the Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) standard, many of which offer direct enhancements over Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), promising even faster speeds...
As it continues to focus on addressable market growth as a function of moving core mobile expertise into high-value adjacencies, Qualcomm dropped a massive amount of news—16 press releases, in fact—as CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The...
If you think the successive generations of Wi-Fi are coming far more quickly than before, you are not wrong. While Wi-Fi 6E is relatively new, and Wi-Fi 6 devices are ramping up now, the industry is already readying the next step, Wi-Fi 7. There...
Dell'Oro CEO says all the signals are pointing to Wi-Fi 7 as the important enterprise upgrade
In a conversation with RCR Wireless News, Dell’Oro Group founder and CEO Tam Dell’Oro expressed that while she has “huge expectations for 6 GHz spectrum,” it's not Wi-Fi 6E,...
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) have expanded their parthersnip to further TIP’s Open AFC Software Group and help drive global adoption of Wi-Fi in the new 6 GHz unlicensed band — known today as Wi-Fi 6E, but in...
IEEE intends to publish the Wi-Fi 7 amendment sometime in 2024
LitePoint has revealed a new test system for Wi-Fi 7 or IEEE 802.11be standard. The IQxel-MX test system is a fully integrated RF PHY test solution with signal generation and analysis combined in a single...
“It will take time, but this provision of untethered enterprise value will eclipse the standard consumer telecoms market.” So says Mark Bole, chief executive at core networking provider Quortus. It sounds almost fanciful, that such a global infrastructure might ever be doubled, and even...
