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ljg1000
Apr 25, 2023Tutor
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...
ljg1000
Apr 27, 2023Tutor
I was hoping they would reply here. I doubt Pre-Sales would have the answers to these questions.
ljg1000
Apr 27, 2023Tutor
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."