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The Wi-Fi Alliance announces the official launch of the Wi-Fi 6 certification program. Wi-Fi 6 offers new features and needs to offer enhanced range and higher speeds. Wi-Fi 6 certified devices meet the requirements of the alliance.

 

The announcement marks the official start of the certification of Wi-Fi 6 devices but in fact it is a formal step because devices with support for the WiFi standard already appeared. This year, even more Wi-Fi 6-enabled devices will be released gradually. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ are the first smartphones that, for example, are Wi-Fi Certified 6. In addition, several manufacturers advertise with Wi-Fi 6 support. For example, during the recent iPhone keynote, Apple stated that the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models are compatible with Wi-Fi 6, and several Wi-Fi 6 routers have already appeared.

 

Wi-Fi 6 works via 802.11ax radios. These new radios are the sixth generation of 802.11, so the Wi-Fi Alliance is calling it the new standard Wi-Fi 6, as demonstrated by the new Wi-Fi naming scheme last year. According to the alliance’s estimates, Wi-Fi 6 is about 30 percent faster than Wi-Fi 5. The first manufacturers of 802.11ax routers claim a total maximum theoretical bandwidth of 11Gbit/s, but in practice this bandwidth will be a lot lower.

 

Wi-Fi 6 uses orthogonal frequency division multiple access, also called orfdma. This technique takes a wifi channel and divides it into multiple, smaller signals. These signals are called resource units, or ru’s. These ru’s allow a router to communicate with multiple devices at the same time, by assigning a resource unit to each device.

 

This allows multiple small data packets to be handled simultaneously, eliminating the need for users to wait for each other. A large part of the data traffic on a network consists of small packets, which means that either the fdma has to result in a much lower network latency. In addition, ru’s offer a flexible bandwidth. For example, a device that streams 4k video is allocated more bandwidth than a phone that only uses the Twitter app.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Your favorite series? You can stream them via Netflix. Want to listen to your favourite artist’s latest hit? It’s a matter of streaming via Spotify for immediate enjoyment. But games? You can still buy them in an old-fashioned way in the (web)shop or you first have to download them completely on your game computer or PC. Not for much longer if it’s Google, because Stadiums will also allow you to stream games later on.
So streaming movies, series and music is nothing special anymore. We’ve all been doing this for years. Streaming is no longer the method of the future, but that of today. Soon also for games, because streaming games is getting better and better. We start at the beginning: what exactly is streaming games?

Streaming games is playing a computer game via a server. While playing, the image of the game is streamed to your screen. The game itself runs on the server. With streaming games, you play a game without having the game console or game PC in house. It is located on a server at a different location. You download the image directly and your control input is uploaded at the same time.

Google Stadia is a new streaming service for games. It is a subscription service that will also be available in the Netherlands from November 2019. It comes with a free version and a paid service. The service can also be used on various devices. Google will offer large, well-known titles, such as Assassin’s Creed, Doom and Destiny.
With Google Stadia you play games by streaming them from Google’s servers. The device on which you play the game is not the game console with which you play the game. No, it’s on Google’s servers. The hardware of your device is therefore used much less intensively. All the heavy math is ‘outsourced’. The downsides of streaming your games is that the graphical quality will suffer along with the latency.

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Your favorite series? You can stream them via Netflix. Want to listen to your favourite artist’s latest hit? It’s a matter of streaming via Spotify for immediate enjoyment. But games? You can still buy them in an old-fashioned way in the (web)shop or you first have to download them completely on your game computer or PC. Not for much longer if it’s Google, because Stadiums will also allow you to stream games later on.
So streaming movies, series and music is nothing special anymore. We’ve all been doing this for years. Streaming is no longer the method of the future, but that of today. Soon also for games, because streaming games is getting better and better. We start at the beginning: what exactly is streaming games?

Streaming games is playing a computer game via a server. While playing, the image of the game is streamed to your screen. The game itself runs on the server. With streaming games, you play a game without having the game console or game PC in house. It is located on a server at a different location. You download the image directly and your control input is uploaded at the same time.

Google Stadia is a new streaming service for games. It is a subscription service that will also be available in the Netherlands from November 2019. It comes with a free version and a paid service. The service can also be used on various devices. Google will offer large, well-known titles, such as Assassin’s Creed, Doom and Destiny.
With Google Stadia you play games by streaming them from Google’s servers. The device on which you play the game is not the game console with which you play the game. No, it’s on Google’s servers. The hardware of your device is therefore used much less intensively. All the heavy math is ‘outsourced’. The downsides of streaming your games is that the graphical quality will suffer along with the latency.