Wi-Fi 6 Becoming a 'Major Influence' for IoT, Conference Told
Wi-Fi 6 is becoming a “major influence” in the IoT that Silicon Labs is supporting, said General Manager Matt Johnson at the chip company's virtual conference last week (see 2009100068). The next-generation Wi-Fi technology was the impetus behind the company’s…
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purchase of Redpine Signals’ connectivity business this year. Johnson touted power consumption and “always-on” Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi 6 brings to the IoT the ability to support "hundreds of nodes without affecting network performance,” Johnson told us. “It allows prioritization and management across all the devices with their unique and different needs, and it supports doing this with lower power, which is something Wi-Fi has not been traditionally good at.”