IDG Contributor Network: How WiFi 6 and 5G will force the merger of PCs and smartphones

[Disclosure: almost all of the companies mentioned in this article are clients of the author.]

I was at Qualcomm recently and taken though the advancements in 5G, WiFi 6 and millimeter wave (mmWave). I also recently had a call with Ruckus, arguably the leader in large venue wireless. They’ve been deploying WiFi 6 technology in churches and sports venues and even though we don’t yet have many WiFi 6 devices, they’re reporting significant increases in access point capacity, improvements in management and better data throughput. At one church, Ruckus has been able to go from 90 people per access point without performance degradation to 400 people per access point with no complaints (not streaming video, browsing the web) – and that’s without WiFi 6 devices.

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