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While we are still struggling whether to replace the old wireless router at home, wireless technology is accelerating. Driven by the upstream enterprises led by chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm, Broadcom and Quantenna,802.11ax wireless chips supporting the next generation wireless standard have appeared one after another, and even the first router supporting this wireless standard has been released, which makes the evolution path of WLAN (wireless local area network) standard to the sixth generation more clear and real.

The 6th generation Wi-Fi is finally approaching.
802.11g/n helps Wi-Fi dominate.
When it comes to wireless standards, from the initial 802.11a, 802.11b to 802.11g, 802.11n, and 802.11ac, which is gradually becoming the mainstream, every new wireless standard change will become a "highlight" of Wi-Fi performance evolution.
Among them, the two standards, 802.11g and 802.11n, have a wide influence and a long application time span. It has been 14 years since the 802.11g wireless standard appeared in 2003, but it is only in recent years that it was completely replaced by the 802.11n wireless standard.

Evolution schedule of Wi-Fi/802.11 technology
802.11g wireless devices with a transmission rate of at least 54Mbps have played a key role in promoting the development of Wi-Fi because they can provide relatively fast and smooth wireless applications for enterprises and consumer-grade fields, and the term "Wi-Fi" has entered people’s field of vision and gradually penetrated people’s hearts.

Wi-Fi protocol parameters
However, what really makes Wi-Fi expand its territory and dominate the world is the full roll-out of the 802.11n standard. Due to the introduction of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) and carrier aggregation technology in 802.11n, the wireless rate has been rapidly upgraded to the well-known 300Mbps and 450Mbps wireless products. Moreover, 802.11n is not only compatible with the coverage advantages of 2.4GHz band wireless, but also supports the large bandwidth and high-speed transmission of 5GHz band wireless, which makes the applicability of 802.11n wireless products broader.
After that, whether in the consumer or enterprise field, it is actually the world of 802.11n standard, and it has become the standard protocol of various wireless devices.
802.11ac changes rapidly.
However, with the emergence of the 802.11ac wireless standard, the WLAN market has once again ushered in a new "king".

At present, 802.11ac has become the most mainstream wireless standard.
According to the WLAN (wireless local area network) market research data released by IDC on June 7, 2017,802.11ac has become a highlight in the consumer WLAN market in the first quarter of 2017.Revenue and shipments increased by 17.6% and 48.5% respectively.

802.11ac standard parameters
Even on enterprise-level wireless AP, the shipment of AP equipped with 802.11ac standard reached 70.9%, and the revenue accounted for 84.7%, which became the new power to replace 802.11n standard, and it is predicted that 802.11n will be completely eliminated by the end of 2018.

802.11ac became a highlight in the consumer WLAN market in the first quarter of 2017.
Then, after 802.11ac, which wireless standard seems to have quite good performance, will it bring a qualitative new leap to Wi-Fi?

The successor of 802.11ac will be 802.11ax.
The answer is only 802.11ax.
802.11ax Connecting Rod Next Generation Wi-Fi
As the next generation Wi-Fi of 802.11ac, the average throughput of 802.11ax in terms of theoretical wireless rate can reach four times that of 802.11ac standard.

The theoretical throughput of 802.11ax can reach four times that of 802.11ac.
However, if we look at the transmission rate alone, will the 802.11ad standard, which was once heated up and can provide 7Gbps high speed, also have a chance to become the successor of the next generation of Wi-Fi?
Not really. It turns out that 802.11ad uses 60GHz frequency band for transmission, which has very limited coverage and huge transmission loss, and is only suitable to exist as a complementary protocol of Wi-Fi. Therefore, 802.11ad is only awarded a title of "Baylor", officially known as WiGig.

802.11ad will only be complementary to Wi-Fi protocol.
The "Crown Prince" –802.11ax in the development route of IEEE 802.11 protocol family not only has obvious technical advantages in transmission rate, anti-interference and compatibility, but also has the characteristics of great concurrency, stability and energy saving superior to the previous generation standards. Therefore, it has officially become the next generation Wi-Fi standard to replace 802.11ac.
Three major technologies introduce 802.11ax
Since it can be established as a "successor", 802.11ax naturally has some extraordinary potential.

Next generation wireless standard 802.11ax
Firstly, in terms of transmission, 802.11ax introduces a higher-order modulation and coding scheme.1024QAMCompared with the highest 256QAM in 802.11ac, it has higher coding and modulation efficiency. For example, in the case of a single stream with 80MHz bandwidth, the theoretical rate of 802.11ac is 433Mbps, and 802.11ax can reach 1.73Gbps. However, in the case of multi-stream transmission with 160MHz bandwidth, the speed increase will be more significant.

802.11ax introduces a higher-order 1024QAM modulation and coding scheme.
Secondly, in terms of spectrum utilization, 802.11ax will be used in 4G LTE cellular base stations.OFDMA(orthogonal frequency division multiple access), that is, orthogonal frequency division multiple access technology is introduced, which allows users to occupy only a subset of subcarriers in a specified time, greatly improving the utilization efficiency of the same channel bandwidth.

OFDMA technology is introduced.
In addition, because 802.11ax adopts new spatial multiplexing technology, it can effectively identify air interface conflicts and retreat, and further improve the performance of interference signal identification and noise reduction by combining dynamic idle channel evaluation and dynamic power control.
Moreover, it isUplink MU-MIMO(Multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology, although MU-MIMO technology is applied in the 802.11ac standard, the uplink multi-user mode is new and unique in 802.11ax, which can improve the synchronous transmission performance of multiple wireless terminals to Wi-Fi access point (AP).

Uplink MU-MIMO is introduced.
Taking the current 802.11ac standard as an example, if the bandwidth of 160MHz is used, the theoretical wireless transmission rate with the highest single stream can reach 866Mbps, while 802.11ax can easily increase the transmission rate to 3.5Gbps. If 4 x 4 MIMO "four lanes" is added, the theoretical data throughput of 802.11ax will soar to 14Gbps, which even exceeds the transmission speed of some fiber-optic broadband.
Will welcome a new wave of upgrading.

802.11ax is suitable for Wi-Fi applications in high-density scenes.
All the above features are obviously the arrival of 802.11ax, which has satisfied the users’ appetite. It can be predicted that in the future, in high-density scenes such as stations, airports, schools and stadiums, people will be able to connect to the Wi-Fi network freely and smoothly, without worrying about such embarrassing situations as dropped calls and jams. Even an efficient wireless transmission mechanism can save power for wireless terminals such as mobile phones and improve battery life.

The 6th generation Wi-Fi has arrived.
Now the 802.11ax wireless chip has come out, and the first batch of home routers supporting 802.11ax have just appeared, which makes people feel that a new wave of Wi-Fi update is accelerating. Once the 802.11ax wireless standard is finalized, a large number of wireless terminal devices will quickly converge to 802.11ax, and the sixth generation Wi-Fi era will really begin.


























































