Broadcom Announces Five Wi-Fi 7 Chips for Routers, Enterprise and Mobile – Computer – News

I agree that it would have been nicer if 6Ghz had been part of the standard right away.

But realize that with networking it is always the conversation between clients and network equipment. Now the better clients have had Wifi-6 on board for a while and so it makes sense to buy Wifi-6 APs.

Which clients now have 6E on board? Exactly, hardly. So we would now be at exactly the same point with an “inclusive Wifi6” as we are with 6 and 6E, with that advantage: it is already possible to build Wifi-6 networks and benefit from the use (many telephones and laptops have 6 on board!).

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Incidentally, I also think that for client wireless devices we have reached a point where the bitrates are “good enough” for 99%. In a home situation, with a dozen or so devices, Wifi 5 is already fine. The advantage of 6/6E is especially for the network administrators, who know busy networks. Of course, the end users suffer from the congestion, but if e.g. having a flexible workplace provider (or coffee shop) tell your customers “Can you please buy a more expensive laptop to unburden my network” is obviously a bit inconvenient.

In that respect, smaller, but faster steps with the WiFi standards are desirable. New standards will then be implemented more quickly in the client device landscape and as a network administrator you will benefit more quickly (but more marginally) from the purchase of new equipment.

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Where you can really benefit is in the ‘wireless backbone’ if you have a mesh network. And there you are not dependent on the client devices, but only on your network equipment. But here the profit becomes really marginal, because if you install even a little professional network, you don’t use mesh/wireless backbone, but you wire everything that you can.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Keypunchie op 13 april 2022 16:05]

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