Reliable, high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity is essential in the digital transformation of companies, as it ensures that all your digital processes work fluidly and without interruptions, facilitating real-time collaboration and secure access to resources. .
In this sense and continuing with the review that we began yesterday about the seven technologies that companies should adopt in 2025, Wi-Fi 7 is emerging as an essential catalyst for their digital transformation, since it offers ultra-fast connectivity with lower latency, essential in an environment where more and more operations and tools depend on the cloud and real-time remote access.
With speeds that can exceed 30 Gbps, Wi-Fi 7 allows multiple devices to connect simultaneously without losing performance, which is key for companies with high user density. This improvement in connectivity not only accelerates collaborative work, but also facilitates the fluid use of advanced tools such as artificial intelligence.
According to a study by the WiFi Alliance, The global value generated by WiFi will reach $4.9 trillion by 2025which shows a growth of 150% since 2018.
This means that in addition to being a facilitator of life, training and employment at a social level, WiFi is an important driver of the global economy. Specifically, in Spain it will generate about 54.1 billion dollars next year. It is also expected that by 2025, WiFi technology will have been the source of 4 million jobs worldwide.
Following the successful deployment of Wi-Fi 6, at the beginning of 2024 the Wi-Fi Alliance has begun to certify the first Wi-Fi 7 devices on the market, which compared to the previous generation, represent a notable increase in speed and considerable latency reduction. Specifically:
- Wi-Fi 7 can deliver maximum theoretical speeds of up to 46 Gbps, compared to 9.6 Gbps for Wi-Fi 6.
- Wi-Fi 7 uses channels up to 320 MHz, in contrast to the 160 MHz channels of Wi-Fi 6. This doubles the amount of data that can be transmitted on a single channel.
- Wi-Fi 7 uses a highly efficient modulation called 4096-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), compared to the 1024-QAM used in Wi-Fi 6. This allows for denser and more efficient data transmission.
- Wi-Fi 7 introduces the ability to use multiple simultaneous links in different frequency bands (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz).
- Wi-Fi 7 improves traffic management and quality of service, enabling more efficient prioritization of different types of data, which is beneficial for applications that require high reliability and low latency.
- Thanks to improved MU-MIMO (Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output) and OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) technologies, Wi-Fi 7 can handle more devices simultaneously without degrading performance.
With all these improvements, Wifi 7 is expected to represent a significant leap forward in the use of wireless networks, both in the home market, thanks to its ability to stream content at 8k or even 16k, and in the business segment, where you can manage large spaces of connected devices simultaneously without saturation or latency problems.
If you want to know more about Wi-Fi 7 and the rest of the technologies that we recommend you implement over the next few months, we recommend that you download our special Orbital Vision guide now.
