Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Features

Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) allows enterprises to deliver high performance wireless LAN services with increased

throughput, enabling more clients in dense environments. Furthermore, it provides high power efficiency for

Internet of Things (IoT) devices, while it remains fully backward compatible with existing 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

deployments.  Some of the key features enabled on DAP series are:

Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) enables more clients to simultaneously operate

in the same channel, therefore improved efficiency, latency, and throughput. OFDMA can simultaneously

address multiple clients in both directions downlink (DL) and uplink (UL). OFDMA is extremely effective for

lower latency applications with mass clients such as voice and video transmission.

Multi-user multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) allows more data to be transferred at once

and enables a single access point to handle a larger number of concurrent clients.

1024 quadrature amplitude modulation mode (1024-QAM)

boosting peak data-rates by as much as 25 %.

BSS Coloring improves spatial reuse in dense environments by providing a mechanism for color

coding different overlapping BSS’s, allowing more simultaneous transmissions.

Extended Range (ER) provides increased coverage in scenarios where receiving side encounters

high path loss and channel delay spread, especially in outdoor environments.

Target wake time (TWT) improves power efficiency for Wi-Fi 6 devices. This capability lets client

devices to sleep much longer, and wake up to less contention, extending the battery life of smart

phones, IoT sensors, and other devices.