MediaTek hosted the world’s first Wi-Fi 7 technology demonstration to show key customers and industry peers the capabilities of its future Wi-Fi 7-enabled Filogic family of solutions. The company itself has been involved in the development of the Wi-Fi 7 standard since the beginning.
The Wi-Fi 7 standard is unique in that it offers entirely new capabilities in all available bands for Wi-Fi use, including 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz. Using 320 MHz wide channels and 4K quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) technology, Wi-Fi 7 will deliver 2.4 times faster speeds than Wi-Fi 6, even with the same number of antennas. Wi-Fi 7-enabled devices are projected to hit the market in 2023.
MediaTek points out that they were able to show that a Wi-Fi 7-enabled Filogic can achieve the maximum speeds defined by IEEE 802.11be. In addition, multi-channel operation (MLO) technology was demonstrated. This technology combines multiple channels in different frequency bands simultaneously to show how network traffic can still transmit smoothly even if there is interference or congestion in the bands. MLO technology will be critical to providing faster, more reliable streaming of video, games and anything else that requires consistent, sustained bandwidth in real time.
Increased resolution of streaming video and virtual reality gaming is believed to drive demand for Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7.