'At around early 2023, we will see the first devices which operate on WiFi 7 standards coming into the South African market.' ─ Paul Colmer, exco member of the Wireless Access Providers Association.
The first iteration of mobile phones, laptops and tablets developed with capability for the next generation of WiFi – WiFi 7 – are expected to make their way to the South African market in 2023., speaking to ITWeb on the sidelines of the WAPALOZA Conference 2022 held yesterday in Muldersdrift, Gauteng.
While WiFi 6E has a maximum speed of 9.6Gbps, WiFi 7 is expected to have a maximum speed of around 46Gbps – which is a 4X increase over WiFi 6E. WiFi 7 is expected to benefit every sector in SA, especially those specialising in internet of things devices, the hospitality industry, technology service providers and the industrial sector, which heavily relies on monitoring tools, he added.
Not only have local businesses benefited from the use of WiFi 6, especially in light of companies introducing work-from-home policies, but consumers are also increasingly relying on the use of smart home devices and IOT applications – with the average South African home estimated to have between 10 and 50 connected devices.predicts more WiFi 6 devices will ship in 2022 than 5G devices, to the tune of at least 2.5 billion WiFi 6 devices, versus roughly 1.5 billion 5G devices.
WiFi 6E is short for WiFi 6 extended ─ a standard that provides numerous 160MHz channels and is good for supporting 5G services.
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