IEEE-mandated sixth generation Wi-Fi standard 802.11ax is accelerating toward consumer-grade popularity.
Broadcom last year released three chips supporting 802.11ax BCM43684 / 43694/4375, Qualcomm also announced the IPQ8074 / QCA6290, and Intel this week announced it will begin adding 802.11a support this year, including routing chips and consumer-grade retail products.
In fact, ASUS demonstrated the first router supporting the 802.11ax standard, the RT-AX88U, at IFA last September. The peak peak speed of the 2.4GHz + 5GHz reached 5962Mbps.
Specifications, 802.11ax backward compatible, The difference is that unlike 802.11ac, this time it takes 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, Among them the maximum design speed of 5GHz is 4.8Gbps. And 802.11ac is most 8 apparatuses, and ax is two digits from beginning.
You know, 802.11ac design is the highest 1.3Gbps, 802.11g only 54Mbps, The 4x download is impressive (upload is 6x).
However, TheVerge learned from the Wi-Fi Alliance that 802.11ax needs 2018 preparation, In 2019 will be large-scale popularization.
