WHAT’S IN A NAME?
HOW DOES WI-FI 6E FIT INTO THE WI-FI HIER ARCHY?
Remember the good old days of wireless g, n, and ac? Well, they’re gone, replaced by Wi-Fi 4, 5, 6, and now 6E. Of course, much of this is mere rebranding. Under the new nomenclature, what was once rather clumsily known as 802.11g wireless networking is now known simply as Wi‐Fi 3. Similarly, 802.11n becomes Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac is
renamed Wi-Fi 5, and 802.11ax is the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard.