Wi-Fi 6 and 5G: What You Should Know
Meet the new era of wireless access: Wi-Fi 6 and 5G. Both work simultaneously to provide all users with new opportunities to connect, grow and provide improved overall experiences. Their convergence allows organizations to do business anywhere — all while increasing productivity, user experience and new possibilities. Wi-Fi 6 and 5G will provide the manufacturing, education, healthcare, retail and energy industries significant opportunities for digitization. Here’s what you should know:
Built On The Same Foundation
Both Wi-Fi 6 and 5G networks are built upon the same foundation. Both provide significantly higher data rates in order to support a new level of applications and an increase in network capabilities. The goal of both is to provide high capacity, high throughput and low latency for more users and devices. We can see this year has pushed the IoT to new levels. Wi-Fi 6 and 5G will support an explosion traffic, access and devices connected to the IoT. It will also support new immersive applications such as virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.
Better Together
Both Wi-Fi 6 and 5G will provide more efficiency while working together in many different use cases. They come with a promise of dramatically better performance for organizations, mobile workers and consumers. Whether you’re working remotely, driving, or taking a walk outside — you can expect impressive connection speeds and performance.
Top Choice For Indoor Networks
Wi-Fi 6 will be the access choice for indoor networks globally. With it’s outstanding improvements in speed, latency, and a higher density of connected devices, Wi-Fi 6 will be the top option for indoor enterprise networks. In areas where there is a high volume of users, such as convention centers or stadiums, Wi-Fi 6 access points will be considered the preferred and recommended choice.
Top Choice For Outdoor Networks
While 5G has not been fully rolled out yet, it is expected to be the preferred future method for outdoor networks. The early deployments of business cases which included fixed wireless have proven it will be the top method of connection outdoors. We have seen connected cars, public networks in cities and drones benefit significantly from 5G networks outdoors.
Expanded Opportunity
Wi-Fi 6 and 5G is expected to expand opportunities for digitization across all industries. There are exciting opportunities for both Wi-Fi 6 and 5G to connect mission critical IoT devices reliably via wireless connection. The expected number of connected IoT devices per second by 2025 is 152K*. Both Wi-Fi 6 and 5G will also offer users enhanced immersive experiences, such as virtual and augmented reality technologies, via mobile broadband. It is estimated that there will be a 12x increase in AR/VR traffic by 2022*.
Low Voltage Solutions is equipped and ready to start the discussion of designing and rolling out your facility’s Wi-Fi 6 network. Whether you are a school district, healthcare facility or government entity — we would love to help you come up with a plan to take advantage of the opportunities and possibilities that Wi-Fi 6 will provide. We are partnered with the industry’s top manufacturers to provide the best technology and structured cabling for your network needs.
* Cisco Visual Networking Index Complete Forecast Update, 2017-2022
