Meet The Next Generation Wireless – Wi-Fi 6

Four is the new magic number. Attach up to four times more devices than under previous standards through features such as orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) and multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO). Wi-Fi 6 communicates in parallel with devices, whereas existing standards communicated only “one at a time”. The increased capacity is essential because the volume of mobile data traffic is expected to grow up to four times in just the next four years alone.

Using target wake time (TWT), client devices that support the Wi-Fi 6 standard may consume two-thirds less power. This means that batteries in products such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, and IoT devices can last longer, which makes it the ideal standard.

optimizing packet scheduling, which is ideal for voice, video and gaming applications.

by bringing the benefits of Wi-Fi 6 to the 2.4- GHz band.

Gain an estimated increase of up to four times in average throughput in congested wireless environments.

With an extension of security to the infrastructure, the new security features allow for better interference and rogue detection and enhanced threat detection with Cisco® Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA). WPA3 is certified with Wi-Fi 6 and provides a greater value proposition than WPA2 for enterprise Wi-Fi networks. It offers enhanced security for open Wi-Fi networks with encryption of unauthenticated traffic, robust password protection against brute-force dictionary attacks, and superior data reliability for sensitive information with 192-bit encryption.