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Not Wi-Fi 6 but Wi-Fi 6E

Can you define the difference there,please

Wi-Fi 6E brings the 1.2GHz of spectrum to build a backbone at 4x4 (4.7Gbps) and 8x8 at almost 10Gbps

A2: In many cases, networks will evolve to this type of architecture. There are areas where this makes absolute sense, and areas where transition will be slower.

What is really going to be the paradigm shift for wireless home backbone is Wi-Fi 7 or 802.11be - where we create a 320Mhz QAM4096 capable backbone to put 10Gbps over the home...... and can then look even at having inroom wireless architectures at 4Gbps themselves

@CambiumMatt Agree, Matt. This isn't going to happen all at once when capital costs are involved.

Wi-Fi 6 is the new MAC standard for Wi-Fi..which has lots of improvements.... but cannot be realized in a mixed Wi-Fi 5 and 6 environment and is locked into 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Ah.Thankya!

WiFi6 + 5G will help solve access. I see them more in the last mile role. That said, they have the potential to transform edge connectivity and are needed as we will continue to see more digitalization.

Wi-Fi 6E is new spectrum - 1.2GHz of it (4x more than today) that ONLY allows Wi-Fi 6 devices enter it - thus realizing the full 4x potential of Wi-Fi 6 immediately

THink of a special 66Gbps HOV lane for Wi-Fi 6E - 6GHz capable devices and all the other 5GHz only capable devices in the commute lanes

yep - differentiated curated services on a ton of bandwidth - with ODFMA at both their cores

Yes - Wi-Fi 6E - 66Gbps of potential

cool!

Both #5G and #WiFi6 will bring wireless speeds up to par with wired... Wired versus wireless is no longer a choice... #VR and #AR will run fine over WiFi

Scope to even do HDMI over 6E but will still be lightly compressed to fit into 4x4 - 4.7Gbps initially

Absolutely. One thing that the network has been always been able to do is go faster! But will the WAN infrastructure get the RIGHT data to your doorstep?

#wifi6 can certainly handle VR applications

@zkerravala VR at 8K or even 4Kp60/120 which is what we need does not run well over Wi-Fi 5 today.... Sure there are some VR Googles and Phones in boxes - but thats not where VR needs to be...needs either Wi-Fi 6E or 60GHz to really have the latency and b/w required for 10ms

@stateless_inc @editingwhiz That's the real question, along with the realistic demand for consumer VR/AR apps. It hasn't really materialized yet.

@CheeversCharles any health concerns around so many radio signals through the air? I always wondered how the SAR scale on mobile phones correlate with wifi AP's in homes and businesses.

We are making sure that the power levels are appropriate for home use...so should be good... In fact we define the 6E level as Low Power Indoor mode - so that it wont interfere with Fixed Links using 6GHz today.. We have also specified a Very Low Power 25mW mode

@CambiumMatt Not if your in an MDU with 5GHz congestion - thats what the new spectrum at 6GHz is for... You can almost have your own channel per apparment ... with 7 160MHz channels and 14 x 80MHz...

@CheeversCharles Agree that 6 GHz opens a new swath of usable spectrum to alleviate congestion and utilize faster connections.

you can't secure or manage what you can;'t see!

How real is #AIOps today? Asking for a friend.

There are elements of AI ops but it's not full AI Ops

And devices!

Yes, devices too! Lots of variety

it's about speed +intelligence. The integration of advanced software into the device centric world of networking is going to open networks up so that tech like #AI can be applied.

Cloud changes the nature of business continuity

Cloud is fundamental to all new services - Access Networks or Home Networks...