GFiber’s new Wi-Fi 8-capable gateway powered by Qualcomm is scheduled to roll out in the first half of 2027 to support 20 Gbps fibre services.
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Instead, the next generation of Wi-Fi is being designed around making wireless networks behave more predictably under pressure.
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The demonstration showed approximately 30% higher aggregate throughput and up to 50% lower latency.
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Qualcomm released a slew of announcements this week at Network X in Vienna – here the most important from a wireless point of view.
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The agentic AI experience needs to be personal, proactive, responsive, trusted and – above all – effortless, Cristiano Amon said.
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The real significance of Wi-Fi 8 will ultimately depend on how these technologies are implemented and deployed in real networks. Wi-Fi 8 is unlikely to arrive as a single capability that suddenly transforms every network.
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When a radio link is weak, Wi-Fi 8 addresses this part of the reliability problem with Enhanced Long Range (ELR) – a dedicated transmission mode designed to make communication more robust when signal levels are low.
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IEEE 802.11bn introduces a new seamless-roaming framework designed to make transitions between access points more reliable. The objective is to prepare the transition and preserve more of the connection state and data flow while the device moves.
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Co-BF allows cooperating access points to coordinate simultaneous transmissions so that each AP can serve its intended client while reducing the interference it causes to clients being served by another AP. The objective is to shape transmissions with awareness of the wider multi-AP network.
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Wi-Fi 8 introduces Non-Primary Channel Access (NPCA) to give compatible devices another way to access the medium in such circumstances. Wi-Fi 8 devices may be able to switch to another designated primary channel within the AP’s operating bandwidth and contend for access there.
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DSO allows the AP to make subband allocation decisions dynamically. This matters because Wi-Fi traffic is inherently variable. A laptop may suddenly begin downloading a large file while another device has almost nothing to send. Greater flexibility in frequency allocation gives the AP another way to respond to changing traffic conditions.
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As Wi-Fi deployments become denser, the amount of time spent waiting can increasingly limit network performance. IEEE 802.11bn – the technical basis for Wi-Fi 8 – addresses this problem with Coordinated Spatial Reuse (Co-SR): A Multi-AP mechanism designed to allow two access points to transmit at the same time.
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Preorders for TP-Links first Wi-Fi 8 product – the Archer 8 Ultra – are scheduled to begin in selected markets on September 30, TP-Link says.
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The most important Wi-Fi news from the first weeks of August – enjoy.
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AI applications demand new levels of reliability and determinism that previous Wi-Fi generations have struggled to guarantee. Here’s why Wi-Fi 8 is essential.
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MediaTek VP James Chen explains how the company is applying AI to solve very specific Wi-Fi problems – not by creating another AI assistant, but by making wireless networks faster, more reliable, easier to operate, and significantly more energy efficient. The vision is disarmingly pragmatic.
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