Wi-Fi 8: Moving Beyond Speed Obsession to Achieve a ‘Wired-Like’ Experience with Multi-AP Coordination
1. Shift in Wi-Fi Philosophy: Experience-Centric Over the past 20 years, the upgrade of Wi-Fi standards has resembled a “speed marathon”: Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) increased speeds to 3.5Gbps, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) doubled that to 9.6Gbps, and Wi-Fi 7 even surpassed 30Gbps. However, user experience has not improved in tandem with these speed increases—places like shopping … Read more