The Technology Behind the Fastest, Most Reliable Wi-Fi Ever
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Most American households count on Wi-Fi, and it's available in cafes, fitness centers, planes, parks — just about everywhere and, often, for free. Spotty service has given way to an increasingly reliable and ubiquitous means to check notifications, stream videos, work remotely, and so much more.
The more advanced Wi-Fi becomes, the more use cases it can support. Applications like multiplayer gaming, AR/VR headsets, and 4K video are now within scope for Wi-Fi, despite requiring substantially more bandwidth and lower latency. The latest advancements found in Wi-Fi 7 are poised to unleash a new wave of applications and drive adoption of innovative new devices. As Wi-Fi proves more capable and the use cases become more ambitious, the margin for error drops and the stakes rise. Wi-Fi 7 promises to support not just demanding consumer services, but mission-critical enterprise applications as well.
To this end, Wi-Fi 7 both faces and poses stiff competition to 5G and technologies like network slicing. If it is to successfully support increasingly ambitious services, it must be reliable out of the gate. This is a tall task with the many new testing challenges Wi-Fi 7 introduces.
Testing has always played a major role in ensuring each Wi-Fi generation’s readiness. But as it learns even more tricks, becomes capable of new feats, and aims to deepen adoption among enterprise markets, Wi-Fi 7 presents the most complex testing requirements to date.
This eBook highlights Wi-Fi 7’s technology advances, impacts on testing, and new strategies for validating performance and reliability.