The Wi-Fi7 (802.11be) standard builds upon the framework that was developed for Wi-Fi6 (802.11ax). The two important goals for Wi-Fi7 were
- Higher throughput – 30 Gbps at the MAC layer
- lower and consistent latency – It was to address worst case latency and jitter. Multi-Link operation (MLO), which we will see in later sections was a step in this direction
The other goals which emanated naturally from the Wi-Fi standard evolution
- Backward compatibility
- Wi-Fi 7 range between 1 to 7.250 GHz
Some of the essential features that were introduced in the Wi-Fi7 standard are provided below:
