{"id":430768,"date":"2022-01-20T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T07:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=430768"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T07:06:28","slug":"mediatek-shows-off-wi-fi-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/430768-mediatek-shows-off-wi-fi-7.html","title":{"rendered":"MediaTek shows off Wi-Fi 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MediaTek <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/corp.mediatek.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/mediatek-shows-the-worlds-first-live-demos-of-wi-fi-7-technology-to-customers-and-industry-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> the world&#8217;s first live demonstration of Wi-Fi 7 technology, which supports speeds up to 2.4 times faster than Wi-Fi 6 and 6E&#8217;s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Throughput speeds of &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wi-fi.org\/who-we-are\/current-work-areas#Wi-Fi%207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 30Gbps<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; are achieved with the same number of antennas, as Wi-Fi 7 uses 320MHz channels and supports 4K quadrature amplitude modulation technology.<\/p>\n<p>Wi-Fi 7 offers new capabilities in all the available spectrums for Wi-Fi uses, including 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz.<\/p>\n<p>MediaTek is demonstrating its new technology to key customers and industry collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rollout of Wi-Fi 7 will mark the first time that Wi-Fi can be a true wireline\/Ethernet replacement for super high-bandwidth applications,&#8221; said Alan Hsu, corporate vice president and general manager of MediaTek&#8217;s Intelligent Connectivity business.<\/p>\n<p>Wi-Fi 7 also features MediaTek&#8217;s multi-link operation (MLO) technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to the semiconductor company, MLO technology aggregates several channels on different frequency bands, allowing network traffic to flow even when there is congestion or interference.<\/p>\n<p>This technology could prove crucial for faster and more dependable video streaming and gaming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MediaTek&#8217;s Wi-Fi 7 technology will be the backbone of home, office and industrial networks and provide seamless connectivity for everything from multi-player AR\/VR applications to cloud gaming and 4K calls to 8K streaming and beyond,&#8221; Hsu said.<\/p>\n<p>MediaTek expects Wi-Fi 7 products to hit the market in 2023.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/429710-chinas-6g-breakthrough-speeds-up-to-206gbps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China&#8217;s 6G breakthrough \u2014 Speeds up to 206Gbps<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaTek showcased its Wi-Fi 7 technology, promising speeds up to 2.4-times faster than Wi-Fi 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":430772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[32300,75806,72358,75808],"class_list":["post-430768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-mediatek","tag-wifi-6","tag-wifi-6e","tag-wifi-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430794,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430768\/revisions\/430794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}