We go live together more movies and TV shows, play more games online, and make more video calls than ever before, and all this puts a serious strain on our Wi-Fi network. We know what’s latest Standard Wi-Fi 6 offers a host of benefits, including faster and more reliable access, but how does Wi-Fi 6E fit in?
“Wi-Fi 6E is the name given to Wi-Fi 6 devices operating in the 6 GHz band, a new unlicensed spectrum that over 58 countries across the Americas, EMEA and APAC have made available to Wi-Fi. -Fi. day,” said Kevin Robinson, senior vice president of marketing at Wi-Fi Alliance.
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Wi-Fi 6E Explained
So far, our Wi-Fi works on two bands: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. The Wi-Fi 6 standard uses a variety of features to improve the efficiency and data throughput of your wireless network and reduce latency for those two bands.
“Wi-Fi 6E extends the capacity, efficiency, coverage and performance of Wi-Fi 6 to the 6 GHz band,” says Robinson. “With up to seven additional ultra-wide 160 MHz channels available, the Wi-Fi 6E device delivers higher network performance and supports more Wi-Fi users at the same time, even in very dense environments and jam.”
Each band is a frequency segment. The 2.4 GHz band consists of 11 channels, each 20 megahertz (MHz) wide. The 5 GHz band has 45 channels, but they can be merged to create 40 MHz or 80 MHz channels, allowing them to transmit more data at once. The 6 GHz band supports 60 channels up to 160 MHz.
That’s a big chunk of the extra capacity. Think of it as going from a single-lane (2.4 GHz) road to a three-lane (5 GHz) highway to a six-lane (6 GHz) superhighway. The same also works for coverage. Higher frequencies have a harder time penetrating solid walls and floors, so single 2.4 GHz lines will reach further than 5 GHz highways, further than 6 GHz superhighways.
Standard rebranding
Traditional Wi-Fi standards are quite confusing. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) establishes Wi-Fi standards, and those standards are certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance, which currently has 866 member companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony and many more. another company.
The Wi-Fi Alliance realized (correctly) that a standard called IEEE 802.11ax could be easier to grasp if it were renamed Wi-Fi 6. This move and earlier caused the IEEE standard 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5, IEEE 802.11 becoming Wi-Fi 4, etc. Each of these standards is a generic term for a host of new features and improvements.
To give an example, Wi-Fi 4 introduced MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology to allow multiple simultaneous transmissions to and from a single device. The second wave of Wi-Fi 5 products introduced MU-MIMO, (MU stands for multi-user), which allows multiple devices to connect simultaneously to send and receive data. Wi-Fi 6 improves on MU-MIMO and introduces OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) allowing a single transmission line to deliver data to multiple devices at the same time.
