India, March 17 -- The Faster Horse Fallacy has haunted the world of technology since the beginning. A car was often construed as a faster horse and compared through the same narrow lens. Yet every genuinely new technology is built very differently in terms of infrastructure, workings, possibilities, and costs than the incumbent it replaces.

Would Wi-Fi 7-the latest standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance that started showing its tread marks since 2024-also require a fresh vocabulary? After all, roads, fuel, combustion engines, and wheels have little in common with the stables, hay, stirrups, and reins that defined their predecessors.

To begin with, Wi-Fi 7-based on IEEE 802.11be-is several leaps ahead of earlier generations. It clocks theoret...