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RS700- and Wifi 7 Certification
The WiFi alliance has not certified Wifi 7 products yet. Yet the RS700 (which at the moment have on pre-order), as well as similar products from TP-Link and Asus are on or will be on preorder. Will t...
Or don't want to be answered. Asking about pre-certification is a yes or no type question. Asking about customer protection if the new croup of routers can not fully certified at a later date- is valid and would be a matter of corporate policy (and the degree of customer orientation). Also if there is a chance it won't be fully certified, - it should be clearly mentioned in the product literature.
It is true that asking about support life is difficult to answer- primarily because if the router OS cannot be successfully patched to avoid security threats- it becomes unsupportable- and this might be hard to predict unless the OS is dated on release. Asking that if the router can be patched, it will receive security updates after X years is reasonable.
This is a user-to-user community forum - we do not have pre-knowledge of what NG is thinking or will do. If you want some of the questions answered, ask NETGEAR directly.
I was hoping they would reply here. I doubt Pre-Sales would have the answers to these questions.
Perhaps this partly addresses my question:
https://technative.io/top-five-wi-fi-7-misconceptions-setting-the-record-straight/
Still, if I was a vendor, I would be upfront with customers regarding the potential risk. In this case trusting the vendor's capabilities and plans is essential. Bottomline, upon release of the RS700 and similar models from TP-Link and possibly Asus- the Wifi 7 standard will not be standardized- and early adopters may not be able to take advantage of the full set of capabilities until after additional firmware upgrades. And there appears to be a risk that some aspects may never be updatable- though this is unlikely given that similar hardware will be used.
This is my assessment anyway."Although the Wi-Fi Alliance announced earlier this year that the technical phase of Wi-Fi 7’s certification is under development, the actual testing is yet to take place. As such, there isn’t yet a Wi-Fi 7 certification for interoperability, which means it doesn’t technically exist.
However, this doesn’t mean that development work isn’t already underway. Wi-Fi technologies and products often hit the marketplace before the certification program is in place, especially consumer-grade products. For example, Wi-Fi 7 smartphones are likely to debut as early as Q2 2023, shortly followed by routers. Broadcom has already put its stake in the ground by announcing Wi-Fi enterprise access point (AP) chips, as well as its ecosystem of Wi-Fi 7 chipsets and radios for residential APs and client devices such as smartphones. On the enterprise side, we’ll likely have to wait until early 2024 for Wi-Fi 7 access points."