MediaTek today announced the world’s first live demo of WiFi 7 technology, highlighting the capabilities of its forthcoming Wi-Fi 7 Filogic connectivity portfolio. MediaTek is currently showcasing two WiFi 7 demos to key customers and industry collaborators to demonstrate the technology’s super-fast speeds and low latency transmission.
“The rollout of WiFi 7 will mark the first time that WiFi can be a true wireline/Ethernet replacement for super high-bandwidth applications,” said Alan Hsu, corporate vice president and general manager of the Intelligent Connectivity business at MediaTek. “MediaTek’s WiFi 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.”
MediaTek’s demo shows how its WiFi 7 Filogic technology can achieve the maximum speed defined by IEEE 802.11be and demonstrates its multi-link operation (MLO) technology. MLO technology aggregates multiple channels on different frequencies bands at the same time to highlight how network traffic can still flow seamlessly even if there is interference or congestion on the bands. MLO technology will be critical for delivering faster and more reliable video streaming, gaming and anything else that requires constant, sustained and real-time throughput.
“Faster broadband Internet access and more demanding applications such as higher resolution video streaming and VR gaming are driving demand for WiFi 6, WiFi 6E, and soon WiFi 7,” said Mario Morales, group vice president, Semiconductors at IDC. “WiFi 7’s advances in channel width, QAM, and new features such as multi-link operation (MLO) will make WiFi 7 very attractive for devices including flagship smartphones, PCs, consumer devices and vertical industries like retail and industrial; as service providers begin to deploy a wider spectrum of hotspots across these market segments.”
MediaTek has been involved in the development of the WiFi 7 standard since its inception, and the company is one of the first adopters of WiFi 7 technology.
“Today’s consumers want an always-connected, reliable and fast WiFi connection for many applications such as video calls, 4K/8K TV entertainment, real-time gaming, and others,” said Moon Ho Lee, president at Korea Mercury. “MediaTek’s WiFi 7 technology can fulfill the current need for all the applications consumers enjoy today and also open the door for future AR/VR applications which we can’t even imagine today.”
Wi-Fi 7 is unique in that it offers completely new capabilities in all the available spectrums for WiFi uses, including 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz. WiFi 7 will deliver 2.4X faster speeds than WiFi 6 – even with the same number of antennas – since WiFi 7 can utilize 320Mhz channels and support 4K quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) technology. Other notable features of WiFi 7 include MLO to reduce latency by transmitting WiFi on multiple bands, in addition to multi-user resource unit (MRU) features for enhanced interference avoidances and mitigation.
Products with Wi-Fi 7 are expected to hit the market starting in 2023.
To learn more about MediaTek’s Filogic portfolio, please visit: https://www.mediatek.com/products/networking-and-connectivity/.
