TP-Link Unveils the World's 1st Complete WiFi 7 Networking Solution for Homes and Enterprises

[TheLostSwede]

TP-Link, a leading global provider of consumer and business networking products, today held an epochal WiFi 7 product launch to announce its WiFi 7 networking solution.

As the world's first vendor to release a full home and enterprise WiFi 7 product line, TP-Link launched new WiFi 7 routers, Deco products, Omada EAPs, and Aginet products for ISP markets to cover all usage scenarios. Additionally, TP-Link's new HomeShield 3.0 provides more reliable and smarter network solutions.




Redefining WiFi Routers: TP-Link WiFi 7 Routers
Continuing the top performance of the Archer series, WiFi 7 routers bring unprecedented experiences to homes. Three WiFi 7 routers were unveiled at the event. Among them, Archer BE900 has quad-band 24 Gbps WiFi 7 speeds and comes with a brand-new design—totally reimagined from previous routers.

Innovative and Aesthetic Appearance with Powerful Performance - Unlike traditional WiFi routers with external antennas, this WiFi 7 router adopts internal antennas to keep an elegant appearance. 12× optimally positioned internal antennas achieve the effects of high gain, high isolation, high integration, and multidirectional coverage.

Incredibly Fast Quad-Band 24 Gbps WiFi 7 - Experience the world's first quad-band WiFi 7 router with blazing-fast WiFi speeds of up to 24 Gbps. Two 5 GHz bands ensure more devices enjoy high-speed WiFi. The brand-new 6 GHz band provides exceptional bandwidth and congestion-free channels exclusive to your devices.

Dual 10G WAN/LAN Ports - 10G WiFi combines with 10G wired connections to take us into the true 10G era. Equipped with two 10G WAN/LAN ports—one RJ45 port and an RJ45/SFP+ combo port—Archer BE900 provides flexible support for both fiber and copper connections. The additional four 2.5G ports and one USB port make it an ideal solution for future-proofing your home network.

Another two routers—Archer BE800 and Archer BE550—were also released simultaneously. Archer BE800 is a tri-band WiFi 7 router with up to 19 Gbps WiFi, equipped with a LED screen, two 10G ports and four 2.5G ports, and is EasyMesh-compatible. Archer BE550 is another tri-band WiFi 7 router but with speeds up to 9.3 Gbps, five 2.5G ports, and is EasyMesh-compatible.

True 10G, True Acceleration, True Gaming: Archer GE800, a BE19000 Tri-Band WiFi 7 Gaming Router
Archer GE800 is TP-Link's first WiFi 7 gaming router with true 10G. This tri-band WiFi 7 gaming router delivers speeds over 18 Gbps. GE800 is powered by the latest powerful CPU and WiFi chipset, providing enough performance for the most intense gaming networks. GE800 is also equipped with two 10G ports and two 2.5G ports to meet the needs of multi-gig entertainment like gaming, 8K AR/VR, and home NAS setups. With abundant game acceleration functions, GE800 boosts gaming traffic, stabilizes connections, and reduces latency to ensure your gaming stays immersive by accelerating game devices, servers, and applications, including mobile games. The dedicated game band prioritizes your online games so they no longer compete with your family's Netflix 4K streaming.

A True Whole Home Multi-Gig Mesh WiFi: Deco Whole Home Mesh WiFi 7 System
Deco always promotes high-quality lifestyles with its powerful networking solutions. The line covers every scenario from indoors to outdoors and provides multi-gig Ethernet access, fiber service access, 5G/4G/3G mobile access, and DSL access to meet different ISP service needs. In the event, three Deco models were released. The exquisite and elegant body case helps it fit various home décors. The added "7" element on the front side evokes the significance of WiFi 7, making it stand out among all the other Deco products.

Deco BE95: BE33000 Whole Home Mesh WiFi 7 System
Whole Home Multi-Gig Connectivity - Whether wired or wireless, BE95 delivers whole home multi-gigabit connectivity to enter a new 10G era. Deco BE95's speeds of up to 33 Gbps are made up of four frequencies, two of which are 6 GHz bands to improve overall performance significantly. One of the 6 GHz bands can be used as a dedicated backhaul to provide stronger and more stable signals, even if your phone and laptop don't support WiFi 7 or 6 GHz band currently. The product is equipped with two 10 Gbps ports and gives you an unprecedented experience, whether for fast internet access or LAN access.

A New Deco System 3.0 for True Whole Home Mesh WiFi - TP-Link has invested much in developing the Deco system to provide the optimal Mesh WiFi experience. The ultimate whole home multi-gigabit coverage, the intensive seamless roaming experience, AI technology, and the new Deco app combine for the top Deco Mesh system.

Deco BE65 is another WiFi 7 Mesh with tri-band 11 Gbps WiFi 7 speeds and four 2.5G ports. While Deco BE85 is a WiFi 7 Mesh with tri-band 22 Gbps WiFi 7 speeds and two 10G ports.

Smart Security Enhances WiFi 7 for Smart Living: HomeShield 3.0
With WiFi 7's coming, TP-Link's security software HomeShield has updated to 3.0, adding more features and 2 exclusive apps for comprehensive protection. With HomeShield, managing your family's internet has never been easier.

Protect Comprehensively - HomeShield provides comprehensive advanced security features. Advertisement blocker blocks annoying ads and pop-ups and prevents data tracking. Intrusion protection protects your home network and applications against external attacks and eliminates vulnerabilities. For those with higher security requirements, HomeShield provides VPN Client.

Protect All Devices - HomeShield protects all kinds of home network devices, including phones, computers, TVs, game consoles, and other IoT devices. Protection starts instantly once they connect to the gateway. Simply configure the gateway and achieve whole-home network security.

Protect Everywhere - Unlike most network security services that only work at home, HomeShield maintains its safeguards away from home. With pre-installed apps, your kids' mobile devices remain secure and under parental control on the go. Parents are able to monitor apps on their kids' phones, further manage payment methods, and monitor their screen time for a safer and better online experience.

With HomeShield, a safer WiFi 7 internet experience brings more peace of mind to your smart living.

Reliable, Flexible, Connected: Aginet Products for Internet Services Providers
Aginet is TP-Link's sub-brand dedicated to supporting Internet Service Providers (ISPs). It is committed to providing flexible products, agile and pragmatic solutions, and incomparable services. Aginet stems from TP-Link's commitment to offering an agile network solution to service providers to match their ever-changing markets. ISPs can reduce operational costs and gain maximum profit with the powerful and flexible TAUC solution.

During the event, the Aginet 5G WiFi 7 router and XGS-PON WiFi 7 router were introduced. Tapping into the power of 5G, we're combining WiFi 7 with 5G technology to accelerate speeds. TP-Link also made major innovations in XGS-PON products, taking the lead in combining WiFi 7 technology with XGS-PON technology, which is the road to future networking.

Break Through the Boundaries of Your Business: Omada Enterprise WiFi
TP-Link Omada has always been committed to providing SMB and enterprise clients with safe and reliable networking solutions. To further address customers' demands, TP-Link will launch the brand-new WiFi 7 access points—Omada EAP780 and Omada EAP770.

Higher Throughput and Less Latency and Interference - Omada EAP780 is a tri-band WiFi 7 access point with up to 22 Gbps WiFi 7 and two 10G ports. Omada EAP770 is a tri-band WiFi access point with up to 11 Gbps WiFi 7 and one 10G port. Powered by the latest WiFi 7 technology, newly introduced 6 GHz band, wider 320 MHz bandwidth, and MLO technology, these two products deliver higher throughput, lower latency, and less interference. Even in an auditorium, meeting room, or hotel with numerous devices, everyone can work, enjoy games, or watch high-definition videos online smoothly.

The Smarter Cloud Solution for Business Networking - The Omada Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform integrates network devices including access points, switches, and routers to provide 100% centralized cloud management and create a highly scalable network—all controlled from a single interface. The capability of Zero-Touch Provisioning, Centralized Cloud Management, and Intelligent Monitoring enhances the efficiency and agility of your network.

Summary of TP-Link's Current WiFi 7 Product Lineup
Above is the first stage of TP-Link's WiFi 7 product lineup. We've provided three WiFi 7 routers, which are redefining WiFi routers with brand-new designs and powerful performance. As for the WiFi 7 Gaming router, GE800 provides abundant game acceleration functions and the latest WiFi 7 technology for gamers.

Three models are available in our Deco Whole Home Mesh WiFi 7 System, from BE33000 to BE11000, providing a true whole home multi-gig mesh WiFi. For enterprise WiFi 7, Omada EAP780 and 770 will be available, covering from BE22000 to BE11000. With enterprise-level WiFi functions and centralized management capabilities, they break through the boundaries of your business.

As always, we aspire to deliver reliability in everything we do and create a lifestyle that is simple, smart, and connected for everyone. We look forward to seeing our customers embrace a better life with these new WiFi 7 products. Please stay tuned with us if you are interested in the aforementioned new products.

[Editor's note: The Archer BE900 has an MSRP of US$699.99, the Deco BE85 starts at US$999.99 for a two pack and the Deco BE95 starts at US$1,999.99 for a two pack. All models will be available early 2023.]

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[Ferrum Master]

I need to take some pills now.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I need to take some pills now.

For your blood pressure due to excitment or for the shock from the sticker price?

 

[Ferrum Master]

For your blood pressure due to excitment or for the shock from the sticker price?

From the price for a mere consumer product.

 

[TheLostSwede]

From the price for a mere consumer product.

Expect this to be the new normal...

 

[bonehead123]

Although I like the aesthetics of that 1st unit on the left, $700 for a home router is absolutely outrageous, WiFi 7, homershieldz or otherwise....and $2k for a mesh set is even moar so....

And for normal people with normal ISP service that only provides 1G service, these are totally worthless, not to mention the total lack of wireless devices (ATM) that can use the bandwidth/speed that these things claim to be able to provide...

Yea, fast NAS's are cool & all, but just sayin

 

[Guwapo77]

I just bought the Orbi 960 Wifi 6E and this thing blows mine out of the water spec-wise. Regardless, I should be good for the next decade. *crosses fingers*

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Although I like the aesthetics of that 1st unit on the left, $700 for a home router is absolutely outrageous, WiFi 7, homershieldz or otherwise....and $2k for a mesh set is even moar so....

And for normal people with normal ISP service that only provides 1G service, these are totally worthless, not to mention the total lack of wireless devices (ATM) that can use the bandwidth/speed that these things claim to be able to provide...

Yea, fast NAS's are cool & all, but just sayin

Here's the thing you are missing. Owning your own stuff is dead for most people. Most people lease their router from their ISP. You get whatever your ISP is using for the connectiong you got and pay them by month. If it breaks they replace it. If you need say a mesh network they will send out a tech who will wire one up and you will lease that as well. Along those lines most software is now pay per month online.

The future is all leased and all cloud based especially for gaming. Nothing can be done to change that either. Hence all the new stuff having pro features and GPUs being sold hyping features and stuff gamers won't use and talking about creators and prosumers.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Expect this to be the new normal...

It costs way too much Volvo's. It even costs more than a console...

It won't happen... with the incoming recession these will turn into vaporware due to bad planning and timing. The MT7986 + MT7976 will also mend the situation to more common pricing.

 

[caroline!]

The Archer BE900 has an MSRP of US$699.99, the Deco BE85 starts at US$999.99 for a two pack and the Deco BE95 starts at US$1,999.99

LOL

Still defeated by a $10 network cable when it comes to reliability, stability and performance.

 

[SimpleTECH]

I just want to know how much the EAP770 will cost. Wouldn't mind upgrading from my EAP660.

 

[trsttte]

LOL

Still defeated by a $10 network cable when it comes to reliability, stability and performance.

Yup, for this kind of prices you can buy your own 10 gig switch, a nicer router box with extra functions (pfsense appliance or similar) and your own access point with better coverage with money to spare and with the added advantage of better prosumer equipment reliability and when something breaks you're not out the full sum. Support will be longer as well on the router side of things.

I guess this requires a bit of technical knowledge, but people buying a 1k$+ fancy router should know what they're buying or they're just burning cash anyway

 

[ARF]

GE800 is also equipped with two 10G ports and two 2.5G ports to meet the needs of multi-gig entertainment like gaming, 8K AR/VR, and home NAS setups

Right...
Especially when most people are still gaming at 1K and 80/30 Mbit/s internet...

 

[caroline!]

Yup, for this kind of prices you can buy your own 10 gig switch, a nicer router box with extra functions (pfsense appliance or similar) and your own access point with better coverage with money to spare and with the added advantage of better prosumer equipment reliability and when something breaks you're not out the full sum. Support will be longer as well on the router side of things.

I guess this requires a bit of technical knowledge, but people buying a 1k$+ fancy router should know what they're buying or they're just burning cash anyway

I built a pihole box out of junk LGA 775 components, no need for a switch as I only have 1 computer. And it all runs over ancient phone wiring ^^
No wireless, screw that.

Speed is 1/10000 of what this router or any other proper, expensive, network gear offers though.

 

[Zareek]

Expect this to be the new normal...

So all the manufacturers plan to price themselves out of the market? 90% of people will not pay it. It's darn near impossible to get most people to even spend $100 on a home router. We will see a massive market for used routers.

 

[Minus Infinity]

How much data will it leak back to China. TP-Link have ceased to be trustworthy.

 

[lexluthermiester]

From the price for a mere consumer product.

Right?

Expect this to be the new normal...

No thank you. Things need to go back to normal, not become the "new normal".

 

[stimpy88]

Oh my God those prices. That's a hard pass when it costs more than a high-end gaming computer yet is built with less than $100 of hardware!

 

[bonehead123]

Here's the thing you are missing. Owning your own stuff is dead for most people. Most people lease their router from their ISP. You get whatever your ISP is using for the connectiong you got and pay them by month. If it breaks they replace it. If you need say a mesh network they will send out a tech who will wire one up and you will lease that as well. Along those lines most software is now pay per month online.

The future is all leased and all cloud based especially for gaming. Nothing can be done to change that either. Hence all the new stuff having pro features and GPUs being sold hyping features and stuff gamers won't use and talking about creators and prosumers.

I disagree..... I know over 100 people in the 100 mile radius of me and NOT A SINGLE ONE of them leases a router from their various ISP's....and about 1/2 of them have their own modems instead of the low-end ones the ISP provides, my self included....

As for the future of everything (like gammin) being cloud based, we've been hearing this nonsense for almost 15 years now, and it STILL is not anywhere near where it should be in terms of speed, latency, security, or reliability. The only thing so far that is more or less ok is Steam, but even they are struggling to progress beyond their initial successes, as is evidenced by their push to sell both the service AND the hardware used to access it....

 

[TheLostSwede]

It costs way too much Volvo's. It even costs more than a console...

It won't happen... with the incoming recession these will turn into vaporware due to bad planning and timing. The MT7986 + MT7976 will also mend the situation to more common pricing.

What do you mean it won't happen?
If this is TP-Link prices, what do you think Asus and Netgear will charge?

LOL

Still defeated by a $10 network cable when it comes to reliability, stability and performance.

And how do you connect that to your mobile devices?
Most notebooks don't have an Ethernet port these days.
Sure, you can get a USB dongle, but that's not $10, but then again, it's not $700 either...

So all the manufacturers plan to price themselves out of the market? 90% of people will not pay it. It's darn near impossible to get most people to even spend $100 on a home router. We will see a massive market for used routers.

It looks that way, since TP-Link is a budget brand in the networking market. Asus and Netgear are unlikely to charge less.

How much data will it leak back to China. TP-Link have ceased to be trustworthy.

My biggest concern with TP-Link is that they issue 3-4 firmware updates, then they release a hardware revision and stop supporting the older revision.

 

[caroline!]

And how do you connect that to your mobile devices?
Most notebooks don't have an Ethernet port these days.
Sure, you can get a USB dongle, but that's not $10, but then again, it's not $700 either...

what mobile devices

heh

 

[TheLostSwede]

what mobile devices

You don't own a smartphone, tablet or modern notebook?

 

[caroline!]

You don't own a smartphone, tablet or modern notebook?

No. That'd be the short answer.

 

[Zareek]

It looks that way, since TP-Link is a budget brand in the networking market. Asus and Netgear are unlikely to charge less.

It is first gen Wi-Fi 7, maybe it's an early adopters tax. Again, I hope they don't expect to sell very many... I puked in my mouth a little when I saw the $450 price tag on the ASUS RT-AX89X when it was announced.

 

[TheLostSwede]

It is first gen Wi-Fi 7, maybe it's an early adopters tax. Again, I hope they don't expect to sell very many... I puked in my mouth a little when I saw the $450 price tag on the ASUS RT-AX89X when it was announced.

Yes and no. Obviously prices will come down a bit over time, as they always do, but sadly it looks like routers will cost more in the future, due to multiple radios, 10 Gbps support and so forth. The $50-100 router isn't going to happen with WiFi 7 or even 6E, as the components are simply too expensive.