At a time when the new Wi-Fi-based products are mostly using Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E technology, TP-Link has announced the “world’s first” Wi-Fi 7 router, which is based on the upcoming IEEE specifications.

The newly announced TP-Link Archer BE900 Wi-Fi 7 Router is based on the upcoming standard 802.11BE, which is a successor to the Wi-Fi 6 and 6E and comes with several improvements, including faster speed and reduced latency, among others.

Wi-Fi 7 can also enable a device to connect to two spectrums at a time using Multi-Link Operation (MLO), which means that users can connect the device to 5GHz and 6GHz simultaneously. It has backward compatibility with Wi-Fi 6, 5, and older technologies.

The new technology comes with support for high-capacity channels as wide as 320MHz and to take advantage of this, users will need to have a device with Wi-Fi 7 support. For comparison, Wi-Fi 6E supports channels as wide as 160GHz.

TP-Link Archer BE900 is a flagship quad-band Wi-Fi 7 router that comes with LED lights and a touchscreen. The front can be swiped to show the clock, weather, and wireless stats, among others. It also comes with support for technologies like OpenVPN and a private IoT network for smart devices.

The flagship router supports wireless speeds of up to 24Gbps, which is less than the top speed of 40Gbps supported by Wi-Fi 7. However, the speed is more than double compared to the Wi-Fi 6E router. It offers a combo 10Gb SFP+Fiber WAN option plus an additional 10Gb WAN port, and they can also be used as LAN.

The TP-Link Archer BE900 Wi-Fi 7 Router will be available for preorder from 31st December and will ship in the first quarter of 2023. While the exact launch date is not yet known, the company has revealed that the product will cost $699.99 in the United States.

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