The Technology Behind Wi-Fi 7 and its Testing Challenges

Some new capabilities include providing guaranteed and deterministic latency with OFDMA restricted service periods; increasing throughput, enhancing reliability, and improving latency and load balancing with multi-link operations and the allocation of multiple OFDMA resource units to each user; and reducing latency by dynamically assigning individual data packets to links as channel conditions change.

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Speakers:
Janne Linkola, Principal Product Manager, Spirent
Janne Linkola is a principal product manager in Spirent’s Automated Test & Assurance business unit. Janne has spent most of his career at operators in various engineering and product development roles. He was a Fellow of Wireless Architecture at Altice USA leading their next generation Wi-Fi initiatives and worked for T-Mobile USA heading product development for Wi-Fi calling and other initiatives. Most recently, Janne worked as director of marketing at octoScope and joined the Spirent team as part of the octoScope acquisition. Janne has an MScEE from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

Analyst:
Ruth Brown, Principal Analyst – Mobile Networks & 5G, Heavy Reading
Ruth covers mobile network research for Heavy Reading. Key coverage areas include system architecture, core infrastructure and services, and supporting cloud technologies.

Prior to joining Heavy Reading, Ruth worked in mobile and fixed network research and design for BT for over 20 years. Her research interests have included convergence, mobile QoS, network slicing, private networks, cloud native mobile core technology and automation. She has filed more than 40 patents on both real world applications and enhancements to mobile core networks. Ruth is an advocate for women in engineering.