The WBA additional discovered that 58% of respondents are extra assured in investing in Wi-Fi than they had been a yr in the past
A brand new Wi-fi Broadband Alliance (WBA) report reveals that Wi-Fi 6, 6E and seven shall be among the many prime know-how priorities for community operators, ISPs, machine and chipset distributors, enterprises and others in 2024, beating out different contenders together with CBRS, DAS and even non-public networks. Particularly, greater than 41% of respondents mentioned they plan to deploy Wi-Fi 7 by the top of 2024, up from the 33% that mentioned the identical one yr in the past.
The report additional discovered that confidence in Wi-Fi funding is on rise, with 58% of respondents saying they’re extra assured in investing within the know-how, in comparison with 46% final yr. Two-thirds additionally said that 6 GHz spectrum availability is a crucial subject for 2024.
Different developments explored within the report embrace the rising fascinated about including WBA OpenRoaming or Passpoint to a brand new or present Wi-Fi networks. OpenRoaming, developed by Cisco and now managed by the WBA, permits seamless Wi-Fi onboarding and handoff between Wi-Fi networks. OpenRoaming adheres to Passpoint and Wi-fi Roaming Middleman Trade (WRIX) requirements, serving to bridge the hole between Wi-Fi and mobile networks by making it simple and secure for customers to roam between Wi-Fi networks with out having to take care of prompts to sign-in. Greater than 47% of report respondents mentioned they plan to those capabilities to their Wi-Fi networks by the top of 2024, whereas one other 33% have already got.
The Wi-Fi Alliance is predicted to certify the Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) commonplace someday across the finish of 2023 or the start of 2024, which is able to act as an inflection level for the spectacular adoption outlined within the WBA’s report.
