This November 2020 report by the Wireless Broadband Alliance examines how new levels of Wi-Fi speed, security and reliability have become available through innovations such as multi-access point mesh, Wi-Fi 6, very high throughput, and ultra-low latency. As industry turns to enhanced Wi-Fi, the latest Wi-Fi standards (Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, based on IEEE 802.11ax standards) will deliver a sea change in Wi-Fi capabilities and performance on 1200 MHz of additional spectrum. The Wi-Fi community has worked to turn an impressive core standard into a fully deployable, monetizable platform, the authors, write. With publications like the Wi-Fi 6 Deployment Guidelines and Scenarios, the WBA seeks to aid service providers in deploying networks that are optimized for many different markets and applications, and that consequently have far greater commercial potential than previous platforms.
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