Remote & Hybrid Working


Gearing up for Wifi 7


The WiFi 7 standard was finalised in January 2024, paving the way for a whole new generation of client devices and networking hardware that can take advantage of much faster wireless data transfer speeds. Netgear has launched a portfolio of products built around WiFi 7, such as the Nighthawk RS700S router, and the Orbi RBE973 mesh router.


Under the hood, WiFi 7 offers significant improvements that will result in much faster performance. We spoke to Gary Newson, EMEA sales director at Netgear for the lowdown on what advantages WiFi 7 products have to offer.


W


hen Netgear was founded in 1996 by Patrick Lo and Mark Merrill, computing looked very different to what we’re used to today.


Desktop PCs were the primary computing device in homes, with


oſten a single computer shared among the family for work, education and entertainment. Mobile computing was in its earliest stages. Handsets looked more


like classic walkie-talkies with gigantic aerials. Te few expensive laptops on the market were thick, underpowered slabs. Te internet was a new, exotic invention that showed incredible potential, but at that time was used by relatively few people.


30 | March/April 2024 Tere was no broadband or WiFi, YouTube or Facebook. If a PC could


go online, it would usually be via a tediously slow beeping modem that relied on analogue copper phone lines. Fast forward almost three decades and we now live in a truly


connected world, and it’s mainly thanks to the impact of innovations in networking, such as routers, switches, gateways, access points, wireless technology and mobile connectivity. Over that time, Netgear has established itself as one of the world’s


biggest vendors of computer networking products, catering for consumers, businesses and service providers. Its products are widely used in every corner of the world and are sold by an estimated 20,000 resellers.


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