The 2022 WBA Annual Industry Report takes a look at the industry trends and drivers occurring in the Wi-Fi industry with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reinforcing the central role of Wi-Fi for indoor connectivity in all aspects of our lives. In the last two years, Wi-Fi has become the lifeline for working, learning, playing and increasingly for telemedicine and other sensitive applications. With success comes greater responsibility. Ongoing standardization work and innovation are aimed at creating a supercharged and predictable Wi-Fi that delivers a high quality experience.
The momentum enjoyed by Wi-Fi is driven by a combination of factors. These include the game-changing addition of the 6GHz spectrum band in a growing number of countries around the world; the rapid commercial availability and market adoption of Wi-Fi 6 and 6E; and the flurry of innovative services ranging from the WBA OpenRoaming™ to Wi-Fi sensing.
The Wi-Fi experience is becoming more deterministic thanks to the combination of technology innovations resulting in higher throughput and lower latencies. Wi-Fi 7 promises to supercharge Wi-Fi 6 with new techniques such as multi-link operation and time sensitive networking while leveraging spectrum dynamically with automatic frequency coordination. Wi-Fi is also increasingly integrated into cellular networks both at the access and core network level. Industries from hospitality to healthcare and transportation to smart cities are embracing this deterministic Wi-Fi to support new use cases and business models. They also use Wi-Fi to support their own digital transformation, empowering their employees and increasing their overall operational efficiency.
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