All the news about the new Wi-Fi 7 certificate

Often we associate technological advances with the companies themselves and fail to realize that much of the technology carried by devices is external. Wi-Fi Alliance is the group of companies responsible for the development and implementation of Wi-Fi systems worldwide and from time to time. They update standards to bring new features to devices and therefore to users. This is the case of WiFi 7, a new standard published a few days ago whose central axis is the reduction of latency and the increase in transfer speeds, which will allow give more power to mixed reality devices, like the Apple Vision Pro, and 8K streaming.

Wi-Fi 7: Reduced latency and speeds of up to 46 Gbps

Many of you will have heard of Wi-Fi 6E, the one we currently have in many of our devices, compatible with the 6 Hz band and transfer speeds of up to 9 Gps. However, This will start to be overtaken by Wi-Fi 7, what does he get speeds up to 46 Gbps. This allows users to receive and send information incredibly faster than with previous versions of the Wi-Fi standard.

Devices such as the Apple Vision Pro or other mixed reality glasses will be able to send and receive content simultaneously on different frequencies thus increasing transfer speed and decreasing latency. Indeed, Wi-Fi 7 uses the 320 MHz bands, thus avoiding 6 GHz and congestion for devices equipped with Wi-Fi 6.

In addition, the devices They will be able to transmit much more data in less time and this is beneficial for increasing the quality of 4K broadcasts as it increases the amount of data to be sent. In fact, WiFi Alliance assures that a 20% increase in transmission speed will be achieved with 4K QAM (Wi-Fi 7) compared to 1024 QAM (Wi-Fi 6). Finally, Wi-Fi 7 devotes part of its objectives to provide a national security tool through so-called EPCS or Emergency Preparedness Communications Services, allowing authorities to maintain the priority and quality of communications via the Wi-Fi network in the event of a disaster.