Behind the surging digital economy, the gradual deepening of the digital transformation of the industry, the newly launched East and West Computing, and the intelligent upgrading of the industry driven by cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, all require the support of high-speed networks.
The basis of intelligence is digitization, and the premise of digitalization is dataization, in the air above each intelligent scene, it is necessary to seamlessly connect high-speed wireless networks to ensure that data is like blood, "rushing" in the system, so that wisdom flows in every corner of the scene.
Only with stable, high-speed, high-quality ultra-high connection capabilities can it be called a wireless network base. Previously, this glory belonged to Wi-Fi 6, and now with the arrival of Wi-Fi 7, a new era has begun.
On April 7, New H3C launched the world's first enterprise-level intelligent native Wi-Fi 7 AP new product, pointing to the new "throne" of WLAN, leading WLAN to officially enter a new era.
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The Wi-Fi 7 dream shines into reality
Wi-Fi 5 was born about 10 years ago, and the past 10 years have been 10 years of rapid mobile Internet development.
Since 2019, the market growth rate of Wi-Fi 5 has gradually slowed down, while Wi-Fi 6 has accelerated its market share expansion. Wi-Fi 6 in 2020 is already mainstream in the market. In particular, the extensive construction of 5G technology and Wi-Fi 6 has essentially promoted the rapid growth of wireless networks in industry applications, which has laid a good foundation for the launch of Wi-Fi 7.
Although under the catalysis of the epidemic, online conferencing, remote office and other industry applications have become more and more mature in Wi-Fi 6 networks, but AR/VR, 8K video, online games, video conferencing and other new scenarios, still face great challenges.
Based on this, New H3C launched two new Wi-Fi 7 AP products worldwide: WA7638 and WA7338. It is worth mentioning that on August 8, 2017, New H3C released the world's first Wi-Fi 6 product, and it is still the first Wi-Fi 7 tested by H3C in the world.
According to Zhao Yujin's introduction, Wi-Fi 7 itself has three advantages: high speed, low latency and multi-AP collaboration.
In terms of high speed, Wi-Fi 7 supports three frequency bands of 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz, the bandwidth is increased to a maximum of 320MHz, a 4096QAM modulation method is introduced, and 16x16 MU-MIMO is supported, with a maximum negotiation rate of 46.08 Gbps; in terms of low latency, Wi-Fi 7 controls the latency within 5ms, which is 50% lower than the 10-20ms latency of Wi-Fi6; in terms of multi-AP collaboration, Wi-Fi 7 Can achieve coordination and joint transmission between multiple APs, avoid interference and collision between BSS, and greatly improve the utilization rate of air interface resources.
It is not difficult to find that with these three "swords", Wi-Fi 7 actually provides a kind of "certainty" for industry customers. In the past, many conditions were limited, and many wireless network-based imaginations were not large, but now Wi-Fi 7 can turn many dream scenarios into reality.
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Preemptive layout, out of the Wi-Fi 7 "smart native" rhythm
The enthusiasm for Wi-Fi 7 is actually the consensus of the industry. Accustomed to taking precautions and laying out in advance, New H3C has undoubtedly seized the opportunity once again from the market trend.
This advance layout also stems from the benign interaction formed by New H3C with chip manufacturers over the years. "About eight or nine months ago, we got the chip plan, so as to ensure the fastest pace, in the first time after the commercial chip solution came out, the launch of Wi-Fi 7 products." Hu Zhigang, deputy general manager of New H3C's wireless product line, said.
Of course, preemptively entering the market is bound to become a pathfinder in the market, after all, Wi-Fi 7 will also face uncertainty in the 6GHz band and the high cost of higher ingress bandwidth.
In this regard, New H3C actually had expectations, Zhao Yujin said, "The original Wi-Fi 5 performance is insufficient, the proportion of the high-end market is still relatively small, and Wi-Fi 6 makes the experience better, so that customers' cognition of Wi-Fi networks has changed, so in the next few years Wi-Fi 7 should be dominated by the high-end market, such as some high-end enterprise offices, competition venues will be prioritized coverage." ”
This judgment is convincing, taking the new H3C Wi-Fi 7 AP as an example, according to the official data, it supports tri-band 12 streams and tri-band 10 streams, and the transmission rate can reach up to 18.44Gbps. Among them, the limit rate of a single terminal reaches 11.53Gbps, which is 2.4 times higher than that of Wi-Fi 6. The numbers may not be intuitive enough, for example, under the 80Mb/s stream, 72GB of 8K video, the download time is less than 1 minute, this extreme experience is obviously not comparable to Wi-Fi 6.
As early as 2020, New H3C put forward the "AI in ALL" intelligent strategy, so "Smart Native" itself is the concept of New H3C product design. In particular, through cloud edge collaboration and New H3C's innovative iRadio, iStation, iEdge and iHeal technologies, H3C Wi-Fi 7 AP can achieve intelligent RF management, intelligent terminal access, intelligent service assurance and intelligent network healing. The wireless access user experience can be qualitatively improved, the service and services can be guaranteed more quickly and in a timely manner, and the network manager can achieve worry-free operation and maintenance.
As Zhao Yujin said, "We have realized the dataization of the operating status of the entire network of devices, AC and AP devices, and these data have been visualized on the cloud and intelligently analyzed this data, so that automatic cures have been realized, and all problems have been completely solved autonomously." "Nowadays, New H3C will build intelligent RF optimization, intelligent access management and service identification guarantee into Wi-Fi 7 AP products, and will return intelligent operation and maintenance from the original cloud and centralized processing to the Wi-Fi 7 device itself, so that the device can do the most timely and effective business identification and service guarantee at the edge of access, forming the ultimate intelligent and fast experience of customers."
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Fearless of challenges, long-term leadership in the Chinese market
The opening of the Wi-Fi 7 era will certainly change some of the problems of wireless networks in the past, and of course bring new challenges.
We know that for wireless networks, high-density scenes have always been a yardstick to measure technical strength, so opening high-density scenes such as venues is also a key step for Wi-Fi 7 to reach the "throne".
It is understood that the new Smart Native Wi-Fi 7 AP can achieve 400+ high concurrency, increase the number of single AP concurrency by 2 times, and solve the high-density deployment problem that has been plaguing customers. Combined with the array antenna and the built-in "smart native" capability, the New H33 Native Wi-Fi7 AP can accurately analyze the terminal status and behavior, and guide the terminal access. At the same time, based on the terminal and message intelligent selection of the array antenna and adjust the signal power, with the lowest signal coverage to ensure the wireless network experience of the terminal, reduce air interface conflicts and interference, greatly improve the concurrency capability and performance of the AP in high-density scenarios.
Of course, whether it is the challenge of technology, the challenge of the scene, or the challenge of deployment and operation and maintenance, for New H3C is only a "small obstacle" in its growth path, because H3C's innovation has integrated the accumulation of network optimization and operation and maintenance in the past 10 years into Wi-Fi 7 products, making the user's experience more refreshing, better and faster.
This is also the key for New H3C WLAN to lead the Chinese market. According to IDC statistics, New H3C has ranked first in China's enterprise WLAN market share for 13 consecutive years, becoming a veritable leader in the WLAN field. It is believed that the native Wi-Fi 7 AP of New H3C will continue the value of New H3C's innovation, bring the wireless network experience of Baixing Baiye Smart and Fast, and promote the digital transformation of the industry.