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Wi-Fi Alliance Officially Launches the Wi-Fi Certified 6 Program

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2019/09/17 03:00:05 (permalink)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/370765/wi-fi-6-officially-launches
 
The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 certification program from Wi-Fi Alliance is now available and delivers the best user experience with devices based on IEEE 802.11ax. The certification program brings new features and capabilities that enable substantially greater overall Wi-Fi network performance in challenging environments with many connected devices such as stadiums, airports, and industrial parks. With adoption of the latest Wi-Fi generation increasing, product vendors and service providers can trust Wi-Fi CERTIFIED will distinguish Wi-Fi 6 products and networks that meet the highest standards for security and interoperability. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 provides significant capacity, performance, and latency improvements to the entire Wi-Fi ecosystem, while ensuring products across vendors to work well together to deliver greater innovation and opportunity.
 
The first products designated Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 which comprise the test bed for certification include:
  • Broadcom BCM4375
  • Broadcom BCM43698
  • Broadcom BCM43684
  • Cypress CYW 89650 Auto-Grade Wi-Fi 6 Certified
  • Intel Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) AX200 (for PCs)
  • Intel Home Wi-Fi Chipset WAV600 Series (for routers and gateways)
  • Marvell 88W9064 (4x4) Wi-Fi 6 Dual-Band STA
  • Marvell 88W9064 (4x4) + 88W9068 (8x8) Wi-Fi 6 Concurrent Dual-Band AP
  • Qualcomm Networking Pro 1200 Platform
  • Qualcomm FastConnect 6800 Wi-Fi 6 Mobile Connectivity Subsystem
  • Ruckus R750 Wi-Fi 6 Access Point
Bandwidth and speed just continues to increase at a steady pace in the industry. Personally I find this a really great development because higher resolution videos need more bandwidth. 

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    Re: Wi-Fi Alliance Officially Launches the Wi-Fi Certified 6 Program 2019/09/17 03:38:28 (permalink)
    While it's great for high resolution video I like that a lot of the improvements are based on small devices. WiFi has brought with it the connected home and with it the ability to turn on and off lights remotely, set the thermostat, get an update on the phone when the washer and dryer are done and even turn on the oven remotely. These devices used to make requests that were treated equal to gaming or streaming HD video but with WiFi 6 devices these requests for data will not have much impact on the performance of the network and allows the network to handle far more requests for data at once without bogging down. 

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