Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6::There are a lot of ‘draft’ Wi-Fi 7 devices around, but ‘Wi-Fi 7 Certified’ devices will only come to market sometime next year.

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Whats a wired access point called?

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A switch?

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Wireless defines how you access the point… Not that the access point itself is wireless.

A switch is technically a “standard” access point (or just ports in the wall connected back to the switch).

We use “Wireless” access point to denote access to the network without physical connections.

WAPs can connect to the network via wired or wireless means. Where most people will reference “WAP” as a wired (wired uplink) connected wireless access point… and Mesh (Wireless uplink) WAPs as wireless connected wireless access points.

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