Feature IEEE 802.11ax-2021 (more commonly known as IEEE 802.11ax or, more familiarly Wi-Fi 6 ) was approved on 9 February 2021, with a top speed of 1.2Gbit/sec per single stream (think stream as synonymous with channel ). As seems to happen each time a new Wi-Fi technology comes out, people are yet again asking whether this is the one that will finally tip us over the edge and entice us away from cables and onto wireless.
I m going to stick my neck out and ask a slightly different question, and explore whether we re ever going to move our worlds to dispose with wires.
First of all, let s not get bogged down with the potential of moving the server room and the data centre into a wireless world: that s simply not going to happen, ever. In the average server room or data centre that uses physical servers, each box will have at least a pair of Gigabit Ethernet connections linked redundantly into the switch infrastructure. Gigabit Ethernet is full-duplex (strictly speaking the origi