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Wi-Fi Alliance Launches Wi-Fi Certified 6 Program for IEEE 802.11ax Devices

The Wi-Fi Alliance released the Wi-Fi Certified 6 program, a compliance program for devices based on IEEE 802.11ax, Monday. The new features and capabilities "enable substantially greater overall Wi-Fi network performance in challenging environments with many connected devices such as…

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stadiums, airports, and industrial parks,” the alliance said. “High speed 5G services need Wi-Fi 6 and so do consumers who want to seamlessly share the moments they create on their mobile devices,” emailed Inkang Song, head-technology strategy group of the IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. Song noted Samsung released the Galaxy S10, the world’s first Wi-Fi 6 phone, earlier this year.