Wireless industry news with an opinion attached. Every item is flagged by how much it should change your plans, and links to the primary source so you can check our reading of it.
Client support for 6 GHz is no longer the blocker in a modern estate. Access point placement is — and most organisations refreshing to Wi-Fi 6E are reusing positions surveyed for 5 GHz.
Multi-link operation is delivering the latency consistency it promised. The controllers in front of it, configured the way they were for Wi-Fi 5, are actively undoing the benefit.
Ubiquiti ships fast. That is why the software is good, and why production estates should not be on the newest release.
Standard Power operation unlocks 6 GHz outdoors and with external antennas. It also brings a coordination workstream that most RFPs currently treat as a checkbox.
Access points are the visible cost. The 802.3bt power budget, the multi-gigabit uplinks and — in older buildings — the recabling are where the money actually goes.
Per-SSID randomised MAC addresses are now the default across iOS, Android and Windows. Anything in your network that assumes a stable MAC is degraded, and most organisations have not audited what that includes.
6 GHz mandates WPA3 and forbids open networks. Any guest service built on an open BSS with a portal is a 2.4 and 5 GHz service, permanently, unless it moves to OWE.
The 802.11bn work is organised around Ultra High Reliability — worst-case latency and predictable delivery rather than another jump in headline throughput.
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