Wi-Fi 8 moves toward real-world use as Sercomm reveals working Broadcom-based router
- Sercomm begins first phase towards ready-to-use Wi-Fi 8 routers
- Reliability is the main goal of Wi-Fi 8 as Broadcom and Sercomm unveil their first platform
- New router marks transition from theoretical design to working hardware
Wi-Fi 8 is starting to move beyond lab testing, offering a first glimpse of what the next generation of wireless connectivity will look like.
In an industry typically obsessed with top speed, Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability, aiming to improve stability, reduce latency, and deliver better performance in environments with many connected devices.
At its core, Wi-Fi 8 will continue to use familiar frequency bands – 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz – but with wider 320 MHz channels and new physical layer improvements. The theoretical ceiling is around 46 Gbps, although much of the focus is on maintaining performance rather than chasing record numbers.
Fundamental Pivot
Features like Enhanced Long Range Units and Distributed Resource Units are designed to keep signals stable even when multiple devices are competing for bandwidth or when users move away from their routers.
Qualcomm described Wi-Fi 8 as a “fundamental pivot” in the way wireless systems are designed, emphasizing reliability and low latency in crowded or mobile conditions.
While major players such as TP-Link and Qualcomm showed off early versions of the 802.11bn standard, a lesser-known manufacturer became the first to announce physical hardware built around the standard.
Sercomm, a Taiwanese manufacturer of broadband and telecom equipment, announced its first Wi-Fi 8 platform in partnership with Broadcom.
The platform is built around Broadcom’s latest chipset and combines deterministic latency, multi-gigabit throughput and intelligent spectrum management.
It also includes built-in machine learning features that can adjust performance dynamically.
“Wi-Fi 8 is a strategic tool for operators who want to differentiate on experience, not just bandwidth,” said Derek Elder, president of Sercomm’s Service Provider Business Group.
“We are proud to be among the first OEMs to partner with Broadcom to introduce Wi-Fi 8 connectivity solutions. Together, we provide operators with a turnkey platform that unifies next-generation connectivity, smart home orchestration and edge intelligence, all within a single device,” added Elder.
The hardware, which will be demonstrated at the upcoming Network X 2025 event in Paris, France, also supports Matter standards for smart home and fiber-to-the-room networks.
Certification for Wi-Fi 8 is still years away, but Sercomm’s prototype is the first tangible sign that the next generation of Wi-Fi has started moving out of labs and into physical products.
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