Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax), are both known as High Efficiency (HE) standard. The Wi-Fi 6E adds support for the new 1,200MHz spectrum in the 6GHz band. This new 6GHz (5.925GHz - 7.125GHz) spectrum opens brand new capacity for modern Wi-Fi technologies to reduce network congestion, lower latency with higher data rates for wireless devices.
The key features of Wi-Fi 6 and 6E:
OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) allows to split the channel into smaller resource units (RU) for efficient data transfer.
Higher data rates, theoreticaly up to 9.6Gbps.
MU-MIMO (Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output) supports up to 8 simultaneous streams for download and upload which reduces lag during heavy utilization.
Higher modulation supports 1024-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) which let's more data to be tarnsfered at once which increases total throughput.
TWT (Target Wake Time) feature let's your devices sleep until the schedule wakes them up to transmit or receive data, which improves battery life of devices.
Reduced latency is beneficial in real-time applications, VR, AR and 4K streaming.
WPA3 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 3) for secure and reliable connections.
BSS (Basic Service Set) coloring numerically tags signals so the other overlapping signals on the same channel can be ignored, which lowers interference from neighbors.
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