Re: [6gip] Wi-Fi 6E

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

Thanks for the comments.

I found this link on Wi-Fi Alliance web site:

https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-6

which says that Wi-Fi 6E extends Wi-Fi Certified 6 into 6Ghz all based on
802.11ax.

The article also describes the features of 6E.
Check it out.

Behcet

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:48 AM Simon Leinen <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Alexandre Petrescu writes:
> > Le 04/01/2021 à 17:48, Behcet Sarikaya a écrit :
> >> Hi all,
> >> 6G came to Wi-Fi :) now it is time for smart phones.
> >> It is weird why they call it 6E?
>
> > I suspect '6' as using a band somewhere at 6GHz.  But I dont know
> > which band more precisely would that be.  Is it the band typically
> > used for 802.11-OCB which is 5.875MHz-5.925MHz?
>
> > E in '6E' might mean 'Extended', or some band that is beyond that
> > hypothetical 6GHz band.  But I dont know which one.  It could be
> > towards 27GHz and why not somewhere at 70GHz.
>
> No, it's slightly different:
>
> "Wi-Fi 6" is the marketing name for IEEE 802.11ax, i.e. the latest
> currently available generation of Wifi technology.  No relation to 6G or
> 6GHz! (The spectral efficiency of Wi-Fi 6/802.11ax is similar to 5G NR,
> thanks to high-level QAM and (MU-)MIMO.)  The generation-based "Wi-Fi N"
> nomenclature is fairly new.  I think it was introduced with Wi-Fi 5
> (IEEE 802.11ac) and was "backported" to earlier Wi-Fi generations.
>
> Early last year, the FCC in the US made a large band of spectrum in the
> 6GHz band available for unlicensed use.  This is quite significant,
> because the new frequency range is significantly larger than both old
> Wifi bands (2.4/5GHz) combined(*)!
>
> So people are now building products that support this new frequency
> range.  The MAC will be the same as for IEEE 802.11ax/Wifi 6, and the
> Wi-Fi Alliance decided to call this new standard "Wi-Fi 6E".
>
> > But I think these bands will continue to stay separated from the bands
> > planned for the 6G '6th Generation', which might be in the Terahertz
> > range.
>
> > I terms of timeline: WiFi 6E might be on the consumer market maybe in
> > a year or two whereas with 6G we look at first trials in 8 years time.
>
> Right, actually I think we will see Wi-Fi 6E products quite a bit before
> the end of the current year.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Simon.
>
> * In the US, this new "6GHz" band is actually the range from 5.925 GHz
>   to 7.125 GHz.  Let's see what happens in other regions - for Europe,
>   it looks like the band will be smaller (5.945-6.425 GHz?), which is a
>   pity because people live more densely in Europe than in the US, so a
>   larger band would be quite useful to avoid collisions between
>   neighbors.  Oh well.
>
> --
> 6gip mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6gip
>