Just as Qualcomm issued a webinar update on WiFi 8 progress, Huawei has published a paper outlining what it calls WiFi 7 Advanced – a suite of proprietary tools that it pitches as a significant upgrade in performance for the core WiFi 7 protocol. For Huawei, this is a way to sell more enterprise-focused WiFi equipment and services. For the rest of the industry, this is another term to keep track of in WiFi conversations. Standardized by the IEEE, under the 802.11 standard, WiFi adopted the current numbering system in 2013 with 802.11ac – retroactively branding 802.11n as WiFi 4. The step up to WiFi 6 (802.11ax, finalized in 2020) saw a significant jump in performance, and the WiFi 6E…