Say hello to 802.11ax: Wi-Fi 6 device certification begins today

'Today, the Wi-Fi Alliance launched its Wi-Fi Certified 6 program,
which means that the standard has been completely finalized, and
device manufacturers and OEMs can begin the process of having the
organization certify their products to carry the Wi-Fi 6 branding.

If you need a bit of a catch-up, Wi-Fi 6—aka 802.11ax—is the next
generation of Wi-Fi. 802.11ax will, at least in theory, allow many
more nearby devices to use the same Wi-Fi channels and frequencies
without causing as much congestion and lag as Wi-Fi 5 (better known as
802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) do. That's the good news. The bad news
is that very few of these benefits can be seen just from buying a
Wi-Fi 6 router—you need most, if not all, of the devices in range
(both yours and, ideally, any neighbors') to also support Wi-Fi 6
before you see the improvements.

802.11ax also mandates support for the WPA3 encryption and
authentication protocol. WPA3 provides considerably better security
for your Wi-Fi network than WPA2 did, and due to its adoption of
Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), it will hopefully prove
more robust toward future attacks as well.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/say-hello-to-802-11ax-wi-fi-6-device-certification-begins-today/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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