Wi-Fi Alliance particulars the ‘speedy adoption’ of Wi-Fi 6 and 6E

By 2025, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E are anticipated to surpass 80% market share

The Wi-Fi Alliance licensed the sixth technology of Wi-Fi in 2019, adopted by the certification of Wi-Fi 6E in 2021. Since then, stated the Alliance, there was “speedy adoption,” with Wi-Fi 6 surpassing 50% market share. Three areas are being credited with driving the Wi-Fi 6 and 6E market: Product momentum, deployment momentum and regulatory momentum.

Product momentum

In response to Wi-Fi Alliance, greater than 2.3 billion Wi-Fi 6 merchandise and 350 million Wi-Fi 6E merchandise are anticipated to enter the market in 2022, and greater than 15% of all Wi-Fi 6 shipments may even be Wi-Fi 6E this yr.  

In a press assertion, Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance, said that greater than 400 Wi-Fi 6E units have been licensed, a class made up of greater than 70 laptop computer fashions, dozens of client and enterprise entry factors, smartphones and good televisions. By 2025, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E are anticipated to surpass 80% market share and dominate the smartphone market.

Additional, Broadcom has shipped greater than 1 billion Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6 E chips, and Excessive Networks’ shared in an earnings name that Wi-Fi 6E has turn into 10% its bookings.

Deployment momentum

The advantages of Wi-Fi 6E — which refers to bringing the capabilities of Wi-Fi 6 into the 6 GHz band — have been demonstrated in deployments throughout a number of verticals together with healthcare and schooling. The College of Michigan, for instance, put in greater than 15,000 Aruba AP-635 indoor mannequin Wi-Fi 6E entry factors all through its campus. The mission, which was accomplished in April, took eight months and value $11 million {dollars}.

“Persons are getting obtain speeds of upward of 300 to 400 megabits per second, which permits us scale back the variety of wired ports that we have now throughout the campus and scale back the variety of switches in all of our closets,” the college’s Vice President of IT and CIO Ravi Pendse commented. “You’re speaking about nearly 80,000 wired ports being eliminated or diminished. That saves us a number of thousand switches within the closets.”

Regulatory momentum

The U.S. was the primary nation to open up the 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi; nevertheless, greater than 60 nations throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC have accomplished or are contemplating doing the identical. Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates are amongst people who have made the higher and decrease 6 GHz band (5925-7125 MHz) obtainable for Wi-Fi 6E, whereas others like Saudi Arabia wish to make the complete 1200 MHz of spectrum within the 6 GHz band obtainable for Wi-Fi, a place “applauded” by the Alliance.