The WBA’s Wi-Fi 6 Deployment Guidelines provide a number of possible scenarios utilizing Wi-Fi 6 technology. Operators, enterprises and cities can leverage the guidelines as the tools needed to embrace and deploy Wi-Fi 6 when it’s released later this year.
Savvy deployment of Wi-Fi 6 can mitigate some of the growing pains that Wi-Fi is experiencing, while ensuring that operators, enterprises and vendors meet important service-level agreements (SLAs). As such, the work released today proposes guidelines to ensure SLAs around bandwidth, throughput, latency, traffic prioritization and numerous other factors.
The paper also provides guidelines for RF planning and design, with consideration given to factors like band steering, MU-MIMO and adjusting for high-density deployments that demand increased capacity. Additionally, today’s release addresses ways that Wi-Fi 6 deployments can provide seamless mobility and backward compatibility with previous Wi-Fi generation technology.
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“Technologies like Wi-Fi 6 and PasspointTM are steering unlicensed networks into the 5G era, meeting high performance expectations across speed, latency, reliability, security and traffic management. To realize digital transformations for both people and things, we’ll need Wi-Fi and its ability to carry the bulk of data traffic with unparalleled efficiencies.”
“Wi-Fi 6 is a generational upgrade in connectivity technology that results in higher wireless capacity, faster speeds, more range and longer battery life. Consumers, Service Providers, and Enterprises are rapidly adopting Wi-Fi 6 as it delivers clear benefits such as high wireless capacity along with the lowest cost and energy per bit.”
“Wi-Fi 6 brings consumers and businesses alike exactly what they are looking for – faster, more responsive, and more reliable connectivity. As we join the ecosystem to deliver Wi-Fi 6 technology optimized for new user experiences, it will continue to open up new possibilities for immersive experiences and wireless transformations in the home and workplace.”
“As Accuris Networks works with Mobile and Broadband operators around the world, the need for high capacity Wi-Fi continues to be a major driver. Wi-Fi 6 addresses a number of critical requirements being driven by user experience and service delivery demands including connecting to more devices simultaneously, interference management, and reduced power consumption which dramatically improves the battery life for mobile and IoT devices. Accuris is excited to work with our Wi-Fi equipment partners to realize these benefits to further improve Enterprise and IoT applications over Wi-Fi.”
“Wi-Fi is a social empowerment tool for country like India with 600 thousand Villages. Wi-Fi 6 is revolutionary in sense that it supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band, brings improvement for outdoor deployment and OFDMA are very essential features to deploy the Wi-Fi networks in our villages. India has opened 605 MHz spectrum in 5 GHz band which is a very bold move to create a sustainable Wi-Fi ecosystem and realize Digital India.”
“Investment is driven by market opportunities, Wi-Fi-cellular aggregation, customer retention and new business opportunities such as IoT. SK Telecom has been engaging Wi-Fi 6 services that can provide reliable predictable services to customers anytime/anywhere and delivering new capabilities and business model.”
“Enterprises (hotels, travel hubs, retail and others) can use Wi-Fi 6 to build carrier-grade infrastructure that will complement 5G. Deploying Wi-Fi 6 alongside Hotspot 2.0 /NGH allows venue owners to control their entire user experience. This next generation of Wi-Fi will also allow these venues to negotiate mobile data offload access to their infrastructure on equal terms with cellular operators.”
“The 6th generation of Wi-Fi has ushered in higher data rates, increased capacity, and lower latency which will give a fillip to increased Wi-Fi adoption and new business models for enterprises and service providers globally. HSC is excited that the next generation of wireless technologies (Wi-Fi 6 and 5G) are focussed on delivering improved performance within new and existing networks. This will give impetus to new opportunities to achieve greater connectivity and interoperability. We are happy to say that HSC has been providing solutions for frictionless onboarding and seamless roaming between different wireless networks to enable devices to securely and automatically connect from one network to another.”
