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Wifi 7: Between Evolution and Revolution: Thomas Moser
Wifi 7: Between Evolution and Revolution: Thomas Moser
Thomas Moser
Fakultät EMI
University of Applied Sciences
Offenburg, Germany
tmoser2@stud.hs-offenburg.de
I. I NTRODUCTION As the name would suggest, one goal of the new standard
is a big increase in throughput, bringing Gigabit-Ethernet
The WiFi Alliance and the IEEE Standards Association have
speeds to multiple devices in the home. Because the idea is
made many advances regarding the 802-standard for Wireless
to effectively take over from the 5G mobile network, whose
Local Area Networks (WLAN). IEEE 802.11 working groups
penetration will not be obvious inside buildings.
are already working on the successor of the WiFi 6 in the
WLAN ecosystem: WiFi 7. known as IEEE 802.11be. although
WiFi 6 is just beginning to be marketed. Future WiFi 7 aims to
reach speed of 30 GB/s for transmission of data. This article
introduces the next generation of WiFi. Although the new
standard will not arrive until 2023, it promises a revolution.
But the new standard simply wants to adapt to the needs for
bandwidth, throughput, high-speed communication.
V. C ONCLUSION