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BE900: inaugurates the new line of routers in the brand's WiFi 7 standard

If you live in one of the lucky few corners of the world where wired internet infrastructure allows for a 10Gbps home internet connection, it's time to think about how you can fully maximize the massive bandwidth of that connection. TP-Link's WiFi 7 based routers, which have just been introduced, can help with this seemingly impossible task, of which the top model, the four-band BE900(image above), can boost the WiFi bandwidth to 24Gbps in total. – and of course highly theoretically.

Obviously, Wi-Fi 7, or the 802.11b standard according to the IEEE, tries to compete with its immediate predecessor (Wi-Fi 6 and 6E – both run on the 802.11ax standard) primarily with lower latency and higher bandwidth. The system performs the latter mainly through multi-carrier operation (carrier aggregation), already known in mobile networks, as devices compatible with the new standard can combine 5 GHz and 6 GHz channels (where the latter are available) to increase maximum yield

Another interesting feature of the BE900's front panel, which has a rectangular column shape and resembles a combination of an Xbox and an external hard drive, is that the engineers also designed a separate status screen, a touchscreen, and a display. dot matrix for design purposes only.

On the back of the device, the wired connectors are basically in good harmony with the massive wireless capabilities, as the BE900 also has two 10GbE WAN/LAN ports (one of which is an SFP+/RJ45 combo), as well as four 2.5GbE ports and a 1GbE connector are installed. for “slower” devices connected to it via cable.

The bar is slightly lowered by two additional Wi-Fi 7 innovations from TP-Link, which do not significantly differ from the top model in terms of design. The BE800 has no touchscreen and the aggregated three-channel Wi-Fi bandwidth is “only” 19Gbps, but the 10GbE wired ports also remain on this unit, while the smaller brother, the BE550, is just 9.3Gbps in principle, it can squeeze aggregate Wi-Fi bandwidth out of itself, and only 2.5GbE wired ports have been added to it.

Once again, TP-Link treats gamers with delight as the new product lineup includes the Archer GE800 gaming router which offers 19Gbps ​​aggregate Wi-Fi bandwidth, two 10GbE ports and 2, 5GbE each and four additional 1GbE s ports behind an almost traditional spaceship-shaped chest that can be illuminated with different colored LEDs. TP-Link also creates its own traffic management app for the router, in which you can assign special priority to different games.

In addition to the above, the Chinese manufacturer is expanding the range of Wi-Fi 7 devices with three new Deco systems aimed at home mesh environments and two new Omada access points. The new products will be launched in the first half of next year.

mundophone