Qualcomm Tuesday unveiled its Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Home Platform, designed and optimized for home mesh WiFi network systems. The platform includes two new processors that utilize 5GHz and 6GHz frequency bands while supporting 240MHz and 320MHz channels respectively. These specifications translate to the spectrum used by Wi-Fi 7 enabled devices. The Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 systems can offer speeds of up to 5.8 Gbps, the company claims. The technology is coupled with a multi-link mesh function that allows dynamic switching between available spectrums and channels.
According to an official blog entry from Qualcomm, which announces the Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Home Platforms, the technology is based on a modular chipset architecture that delivers over 20 Gb/s total system capacity.
The company claims the processor technology was designed to enable collaboration, telepresence, AR/VR and immersive gaming “in the homes of today and tomorrow.” The technology is currently being sampled, while commercial sales are expected to begin in the second half of 2023.
“We engineered the Qualcomm Immersive Home Platform to enable high-performance connectivity in an affordable, thin form factor that delivers the latest innovations in home networking,” said Nick Kucharewski, senior vice president and general manager, wireless infrastructure and networking at Qualcomm -technologies.
Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Home platform includes a proprietary multi-link mesh system that distributes connections in the unlicensed 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz spectrum bands based on network conditions, device capabilities, and Selects, aggregates or switches home network topology. The company claims the platform can offer a 75 percent reduction in real-time latency in congested environments compared to Wi-Fi 6.
The system utilizes Wi-Fi 7 technology that ranges in the 5GHz spectrum with 240MHz channels and 4K QAM modulation, which the company says help deliver 80 percent more capacity compared to Wi -Fi 6 to deliver. As mentioned, the platform claims to offer a top speed of 5.8 GBps to a single connected device.
