Wi-Fi 6E – It’s almost like Wi-Fi is being born again
I recently had the pleasure to speak to a room full of Wi-Fi technical professionals about the biggest thing to happen for Wi-Fi technology in the past 15 years… Wi-Fi 6E. The future of Wi-Fi has arrived, the spectrum bonanza of 6 GHz.
I had 60 minutes to discuss some of the technical highlights of using the 6 GHz frequency band for Wi-Fi communications with my peers.
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In those 60 minutes I discussed:
- Rapid growth of 6 GHz spectrum availability throughout the world
- Various Wi-Fi device classes for indoor and outdoor communication
- Potential new wireless use cases that 6 GHz provides
- Out-of-band AP discovery mechanisms
- 6 GHz Wi-Fi security implications
- Wi-Fi 6E wired and wireless design considerations
Wi-Fi 6E and the availability of 6 GHz spectrum is truly a gamechanger. So, I challenged the audience of expert Wi-Fi professionals to think out-of-the-box for new and creative ways to design and deploy 6 GHz Wi-Fi in the enterprise. I do not doubt that we will all learn much more within a short year as tactical deployments of Wi-Fi 6E have begun.
In the meantime, the video of my presentation at the 2022 wirelessLAN Professionals Conference (WLPC) in Phoenix is now available for all to view.