Wi-Fi 6: It’s for the robots

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Kevin Robinson learned leadership at America’s elite military academy West Point.
Now, as the Wi-Fi Alliance’s marketing vice president, he is marshalling a battalion of 550 companies to weaponise Wi-fi 6.
At West Point Military Academy, says freelance technology writer, Nick Booth, character is built on four pillars of performance: academics, character, physical and military.

While Wi-Fi 6 can be 40% faster than the last standard, the training emphasises effective targeting over speed gains. Its channels are plotted, divided and allocated with ruthless efficiency.It’s the detailed delineation that has been built into Wi-Fi that makes it a powerful weapon, says Robinson. It has better beam forming for superior speeds at range. The accreditation training emphases how the new system has four times greater quadrature amplitude modulation than the last – using 1024-QAM rather than Wi-Fi 5’s 256-QAM.

Yes, it fires more packets per second than the old guns, but the real killer is the targeting. Two new techniques are used to sub-divide the output and make more efficient use of the bandwidth: These are orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and MU-MIMO.

The very qualities needed by the Wi-Fi Alliance members, the logistics corps of the Internet of Things (IoT), which itself graduated from the US military – namely the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
But the Wi-Fi 6 Certification Program, the latest weapons training promised to the companies of the Wi-Fi Alliance, could restore discipline and integrity.
The plan is to make the IoT run with military efficiency over Wi-Fi.
Marshalling those forces is marketing director Kevin Robinson, who employs many of the lessons he learned at the elite US Army college West Point, where he earned his academic stripes as a Bachelor of Science.
While Wi-Fi 6 can be 40% faster than the last standard, the training emphasises effective targeting over speed gains.
It’s the detailed delineation that has been built into Wi-Fi that makes it a powerful weapon, says Robinson.
The accreditation training emphases how the new system has four times greater quadrature amplitude modulation than the last – using 1024-QAM rather than Wi-Fi 5’s 256-QAM.
All of which imposes discipline and shape on the Wi-Fi network, with every packet knowing its timing and order and no bit going to waste caused by pointless contention.
Meanwhile, ‘Sergeant’ Access Point will waste less time trying to rouse sleeping devices when it needs to check in with them, because Wi-Fi 6 allows for Target Wake Time (TWT) to be scheduled in for such exchanges of information.
Wi-Fi offers brilliant weaponry but without training you will be pointing it in the wrong direction and hurting your own side

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