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Drafting Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn); ratification targeted for May 2028
For two decades, 'fiber to every home' has been promised and postponed. The fiber itself was rarely the bottleneck. The constraint was the gateway hardware—the box on a customer's wall that turns light pulses into Wi-Fi—which stayed too expensive for carriers to hand out free with a service plan. On April 30, 2026, Broadcom announced the chipsets designed to break that constraint: a 10-gigabit passive optical network gateway system-on-chip and two paired Wi-Fi 8 radios, all engineered for mass-market price points.
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