Qualcomm Tuesday unveiled its Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Home Platform, specifically designed and optimized for home mesh Wi-Fi network systems. The platform includes two new processors that utilize 5GHz and 6GHz frequency bands while supporting 240MHz and 320MHz channels respectively. These specifications carry over 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, according to the company. The technology is paired with a multi-link mesh feature 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 a total system capacity of over 20 Gbps.
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 tested, with commercial sales expected to begin in the second half of 2023.
“We built the Qualcomm Immersive Home Platform to enable high-performance connectivity in an affordable, low-profile form factor and deliver 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 selects, aggregates, or aggregates connections in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz spectrum bands based on network conditions, device capabilities, and home network topology changes. The company claims the platform can enable a 75 percent reduction in real-time latency in congested environments compared to Wi-Fi 6.
The system uses Wi-Fi 7 technology in the 5 GHz spectrum with 240 MHz channels and 4K QAM modulation, which the company says results in 80 percent more capacity compared to Wi-Fi 6. As mentioned earlier, this is the case with the platform claiming to offer a peak speed of 5.8 Gbps to a single connected device.
