Wi-Fi Alliance Ditches ancient Naming scheme for Version Numbers, Wi-Fi six coming shortly
The Wi-Fi Alliance, the cluster of companies that backs Wi-Fitechnology, has finally drop the standard 802.11 naming scheme and brought version numbers to spot Wi-Fi generations by a numerical sequence. As a results of the most recent move, product vendors can start using generic names rather than using 802.11ac or 802.11 a/b/g/n to spotlight the Wi-Fi technology supported by their devices. The new naming system is retroactively enforced on all the Wi-Fi technology versions that are launched up to now, beginning with the 802.11b that was launched in 1999, and intensifying to 802.11ac that was introduced in 2014. this suggests 802.11b are going to be diagrammatical as Wi-Fi one, while 802.11ac are going to be known as Wi-Fi five. Similarly, the Wi-Fi Alliance has proclaimed that the next-generation Wi-Fi technology that was up to now referred to as 802.11ax can currently be dubbed Wi-Fi vi. As every new generation of Wi-Fi cust...