CONNECTIVITY
The Need for WiFi7 Speed As remote and hybrid work become the norm, businesses face new connectivity challenges. Wi-Fi 7 and unified communications solutions offer transformative benefits, from faster speeds to seamless collaboration. Ben Allcock, B2B Sales Director at TP-Link explores how these advancements can future-proof operations and enhance productivity in a rapidly evolving work environment.
Last year the Office for National Statistics ran a study ( the Characteristics of Homeworkers in Great Britain ) that concluded 16% of workers in the UK have the ability to work from home permanently, while 28% of the workforce are able to operate under a hybrid scheme. As such, a large portion of the workforce works from home at least once a week, using home networking architectures. With these professionals spending at least one fifth of their time working outside of office environments, many businesses have become prone to suffering from communication gaps. In addition to home working, and because of the wider capability to work remotely, team structures within organisations are becoming more fractured and international. It is now common practice for employees to work from different sides of the country, and even across borders. The benefits of Wi-Fi 7 With the Wi-Fi Alliance projecting over 2 billion Wi-Fi 7-enabled devices expected to be available by 2028, introducing Wi-Fi 7 into the ecosystem of a business places several
additional impacts on its network. Increased throughput is expected with Wi-Fi 7. However, the benefits are yet to be fully realised as technology fights to catch up with this adoption. Wi-Fi 7 increases connectivity and efficiency by lowering latency – employees across organisations are now spending less time waiting for applications and software to load and more time focusing on critical daily tasks. Seen as a hygiene factor in business development – a system where usability directly impacts everyday operations - Wi-Fi 7 will provide businesses with tools to grow as and when they require higher networking speeds. It will also enable larger data density transfers, a process invaluable to remote and international team members. While its top speeds are yet to be unlocked by many businesses, Wi-Fi 7 directly future-proofs a business’s daily operations – providing them with the networking power and opportunities of the future. This development allows businesses to instead focus on scaling daily operations without having to consider upgrading Wi-Fi or networking solutions – growth becomes easier and streamlined.
Ben Allcock Sales Director – B2B
www.tp-link.com
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