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WFA Announces 802.11ac Wave 2 Certification

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Last Post: June 29, 2016:

By Howard - edited: June 29, 2016 June 29, 2016

The Wi-Fi alliance has today announced the release of their 802.11ac certification.

Some of the new features supported by /ac wave 2 include MU-MIMO (down link only), 160 MHz wide channels, four spatial streams, and extended channel support in the 5 GHz band.

The WFA main /ac page:

http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-ac

Press release at:

https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-certified-ac-brings-new-advances-in-wi-fi-performance

An industry white paper can be requested from this page:

https://www.wi-fi.org/downloads-registered-guest/wp_Wi-Fi_CERTIFIED_ac_Industry_20160629.pdf/29711

Companies providing test bed products include Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Quantenna, who also show their new wave-2 products on the WFA product finder page:

https://www.wi-fi.org/product-finder-results?sort_by=default&sort_order=desc

Select MU-MIMO from the drop down menus.

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