Huawei announced it has completed a successful laboratory trial of 10Gbps Wi-Fi in Shenzhen.
The trial, conducted at Huawei's campus in the city using prototype Wi-Fi equipment, achieved a transmission rate of 10.53Gbps over the 5-GHz frequency band.
Based on the demonstration, Huwaei said it expects that ultrafast 10Gbps Wi-Fi could be commercially available from 2018.
This timeframe will depend on factors including the time it takes to reach global consensus on standards requirements for the new technology, chipset availability and other factors.
Huawei expects the next generation of Wi-Fi networks to support new technologies such as MIMO-OFDA, intelligent spectrum allocation, interference coordination and hybrid access. The technology promises a tenfold increase in spectral efficiency in densely populated environments.
Earlier this year, Japan's NTT DoCoMo demonstrated the first 10 Gbps mobile uplink rate using spectrum on the 11 GHz band. South Korea's state-backed R&D agency KAIST also recently announced they have developed an RF chip that can transmit at 10Gbps.