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Finnish telco vendor Nokia added a 5G fixed wireless access outdoor receiver and indoor gateway with Wi-Fi 7 to its growing portfolio of FWA broadband access products.

GUEST OPINION: Successful enterprises are those that never stop adapting to the changing terrain of business. Like the veteran team captain who reads the field, identifying opportunities and weighing risks, enterprises that flourish are those who take the initiative.

COMPANY NEWS: Extreme Networks, a leader in cloud networking, today announced it has been named as a Leader by Gartner for the sixth consecutive time in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, published on 6 March 2024, authored by Tim Zimmerman, Christian Canales, Nauman Raja, and Mike Leibovitz. Of the 12 companies in the Magic Quadrant, Extreme Networks was named a Leader for both vision and execution.

COMPANY NEWS: Extreme Networks today introduced two new solutions designed to help highly distributed enterprise organiSations create improved network connectivity, security and application performance. The AP5020 is a new Wi-Fi 7 Universal access point (AP) that operates on the 6GHz spectrum and is designed to support high-bandwidth, latency-sensitive applications and IoT devices – creating a more effective way for enterprises to modernise and manage operations. The 4000 series cloud-managed switches, the latest addition to Extreme’s Universal portfolio, offer faster setup time by eliminating nearly all manual configurations. Paired with ExtremeCloud Universal ZTNA, these offer automated onboarding, configuration and policy enforcement to strengthen security as organisations move to a Zero Trust architecture across their network.

British provider EE has partnered with semiconductor company Qualcomm to roll out an in-home hardware that in the future will feature Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 platforms as part of its ongoing plans to deliver home connectivity to consumers across the UK.

Internet giant Amazon's September hardware and services event last week Wednesday saw the debut of a new mesh router for the Eero lineup, the Eero Max 7, a router with early support for Wi-Fi 7, the next-gen Wi-Fi standard that builds upon Wi-Fi 6E's expansion into the 6Ghz band.

Intel Core Ultra processors – code named Meteor Lake – will be launched on 14 December 2023, "ushering in a new age of the AI PC," according to CEO Pat Gelsinger.

More than a third (33%) of service providers, technology providers, and enterprises have plans to deploy Wi-Fi 7 by the end of 2023, according to Wireless Broadband Alliance’s WBA Annual Industry Report 2023.

Chipmakers Intel and Broadcom claimed an industry-first with their cross-vendor demonstration of Wi-Fi 7.

Overall wireless LAN market is expected to exceed US$10 billion ($14 billion) by 2026, and will see a robust CAGR over the next five years, forecasts market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Supply constraints may cause the market to leapfrog Wi-Fi 6E and go straight from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 7, according to market analyst Dell'Oro Group.