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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) tested Wi-Fi 7 in various company scenarios with the partners AT&T, Commscope's Ruckus Networks and Intel and found that it delivered significant increases in performance.

The industry organization compared Wi-Fi 7 with Wi-Fi 6e to the 5 GHz and 6 GHz straps. The first test was carried out in an AT&T office building and focused on throughput, latency and signal area via different frequencies and channel widths.

With 6 GHz with 160 MHz channels, Wi-Fi 7 achieved an almost 2 GB/s downlink throughput up close and kept more than 1 GB/s up to 40 feet.

In the company settings with high density, Wi-Fi 7- “Enhanced Spectral Efficiency and Multi-Link Operation (MLO) provided a more stable, more reliable connectivity and mitigating network congestion even under heavily stressed conditions,” explained The WBA.

Wi-Fi 7 almost doubled the throughput of Wi-Fi 6e at 5 GHz with 40 MHz channels.

The WBA stated that the tests “Wi-Fi 7 capability, important connectivity problems in smart offices, production, healthcare and immersive digital environments show” showing thousands of access points.

“Companies that rely on the cooperation in real time, video conferences, AI-controlled automation and AR/VR applications benefit from the lower latency of Wi-Fi 7 and a higher throughput to ensure seamless user experiences without performance,” wrote the WBA.

After the tests, the WBA continued to “work with the leading industry leaders in order to accelerate the adoption of Wi-Fi 7, refine implementation strategies and to support companies in using the full potential of Wi-Fi 7”.

Tiago Rodrigues, President and CEO of the WBA, said the attempts “prove that Wi-Fi 7 offers real improvements in speed, reliability and efficiency that companies have to support the next generation of applications.”