Industry body Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) did some Wi-Fi 7 trials in relation to enterprise applications and says it clocked increased throughput, lower latency, and enhanced efficiency for high-demand applications.
The trials were conducted in collaboration with AT&T, CommScope and Intel, and compared Wi-Fi 7 with Wi-Fi 6E across the 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands. They assessed Wi-Fi 7’s capabilities in both controlled and real-world enterprise environments, focusing on throughput, latency, and signal range across different frequencies and channel widths, we’re told.
According to the release, at 6 GHz with 160 MHz channels, Wi-Fi 7 clocked nearly 2 Gbps downlink throughput at close range, maintaining over 1 Gbps up to 40 feet away, while in high-density enterprise settings, Wi-Fi 7’s “enhanced spectral efficiency and Multi-Link Operation (MLO) provided more stable, reliable connectivity, mitigating network congestion even in heavily loaded conditions.”
