PChome Mobile Interpretation Network connectivity is a basic but very important feature in cell phones, and a cell phone that can't connect to the network is not much different from a brick, and can only use local features that are really out of sync with the entire era.
Cellular and Wi-Fi networks are the most common ways to connect to the Internet, and Wi-Fi is essential in fixed environments because you don't have to worry about traffic limitations and you can use it as much as you want. However, in recent years, with the massive popularity of 5G networks, the Wi-Fi experience seems to be starting to lose a bit of its pace, especially as the number of mobile devices accessing the network has increased, and the routers carrying the Wi-Fi network are overwhelmed, resulting in hindered performance and a degradation of the network experience, until the advent of Wi-Fi 6.
The Wi-Fi 6 technology, which is starting to be accepted by the public today, can be seen as a Wi-Fi technology that matches the 5G network, which combines higher connection speeds with stronger multi-device connectivity, and can dramatically improve the experience of using a Wi-Fi network. At ChinaJoy held at the beginning of the month, Qualcomm displayed a number of new routers with Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6 solutions in the Snapdragon Theme Pavilion. When paired with a Snapdragon 865 cell phone, you can enjoy the high speed and reliability of Wi-Fi 6 technology.
Wi-Fi 6 technology, the best partner for 5G
Qualcomm has a sustained high investment in Wi-Fi technology research and development, and as early as 2012 introduced Wi-Fi 5 products on the cellular side, leading the way forward for Wi-Fi technology. Since 2015, Qualcomm has shipped more than 4 billion Wi-Fi chips, flooding the market with a large number of Qualcomm solution devices. Qualcomm is also a leader in Wi-Fi 6 technology, providing "end-to-end" Wi-Fi 6 solutions from routers to mobile devices. Thanks to the high degree of overlap between Wi-Fi and cellular networks, Qualcomm is in a unique position to develop Wi-Fi 6 technologies, such as MIMO, which is very popular in cellular networks, and is very easy to evolve to Wi-Fi networks.
Qualcomm has built the Networking Pro series of platforms that provide coverage for Wi-Fi 6 technology, which accelerates the launch of Wi-Fi 6 router products, enabling Wi-Fi 6 technology to become available at the user level as quickly as possible.
The most intuitive change that a router using Wi-Fi 6 technology can bring is faster speeds. Currently, Wi-Fi 6 routers on the market that use Qualcomm's Wi-Fi 6 solution, such as the Linksys Velop MX5300-5300M router, have a combined total of up to 5300Mbps network speeds, compared to the Wi-Fi 6 solution, which is supported by the Smart Triple-Band. With intelligent tri-band support, the Velop MX5300-5300M router already boasts a combined network speed of up to 5300Mbps, providing up to 4x the transmission capacity compared to Wi-Fi 5 routers.
The advantages of Wi-Fi 6 routers are also more obvious when multiple users and terminals are accessing the network at the same time. MU-MIMO technology enables multiple antennas to be connected, allowing data to be sent and received separately, and data to be sent synchronously between users, which greatly improves processing, allowing for strong network performance even when multiple mobile devices are connected to a single router. MIMO technology is one of the basic technologies in cellular networks, which can significantly improve signal performance. Qualcomm, with its strong strength in cellular technology, has made it easy to port MIMO technology to Wi-Fi. In fact, Qualcomm not only quickly applied MIMO to Wi-Fi, but was also the first vendor to support 4-way MU-MIMO. In Wi-Fi 6's MU-MIMO technical support, Qualcomm also has other solutions can not touch the place, at the same time support for uplink and downlink MIMO Qualcomm solution, will allow the terminal side and AP side of the two-way to maintain the most stable network connection state, while other solutions may not all support this feature.
The OFDMA technology supported by Wi-Fi 6 routers can dramatically improve the efficiency of multi-device data transmission by aggregating data from multiple devices and sending it in a packet. Compared to the frequent streaming of data sent by Wi-Fi 5, it is clear that Wi-Fi 6 is more efficient in processing.
It is also worth noting that Qualcomm has also implemented support for Wi-Fi 6's new BSS Coloring, which allows devices to differentiate between each other to reduce interference and increase each device's ability to communicate with its own network. In other words, it's a "my way or the highway".
With Wi-Fi 6, you can also improve your device's battery life by using the Target Wakeup Time feature, which allows you to y manage your Wi-Fi network's wakeup time, so that when your phone has not been using Wi-Fi for a long period of time (e.g., when you go to bed late at night), the router will send a command to your phone to temporarily shut down the Wi-Fi module, thus saving you from having to run out of battery life.
End-to-end solution for the most comprehensive Wi-Fi connectivity experience
From a technical perspective, Wi-Fi 6 has obvious advantages as a new technology, and it delivers a Wi-Fi network experience that is truly compatible with the 5G era. Without Wi-Fi 6, the 5G phone experience will suffer, after all, Wi-Fi is inferior to the mobile network, often "abandoned".
To experience a full Wi-Fi 6 network, you need to have two-way support from both the router and the phone terminal - after all, it's a bucket problem, and it's the shortest plank that ultimately determines the experience.
In mobile devices, Qualcomm's layout of Wi-Fi 6 technology has been quite comprehensive, and as early as in the last generation of the Snapdragon 855 mobile platform, Qualcomm provided Wi-Fi 6 Ready, which gave users the opportunity to experience some of the new Wi-Fi 6 features. In the latest generation of Snapdragon 865 mobile platform, the FastConnect 6800 subsystem has complete Wi-Fi 6 support and is one of the first products to receive Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 certification.
Currently, mobile devices powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 mobile platform have almost full coverage of Wi-Fi 6 technology, with support for 1024-QAM modulation at both 2.4GHz and 5GHz, whereas other brands do not have as stringent a standard as Qualcomm does, with some offering 1024-QAM streams in the 5GHz band and no such support in the 2.4GHz band. no such support. The full-fledged 1024-QAM plus 2x2+2x2 dual-band concurrency technology allows the phone to connect to two frequency bands at the same time and support two streams of data per band for transmission. To be clear, it supports 2x2 MIMO in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, and is based on the highest 1024QAM modulation. With this technology, the theoretical network throughput can reach up to 1.8Gbps, and in practice, the actual usage is also 1.3-1.4Gbps, and in addition, dual-band concurrency can also reduce the network latency.
The other thing to note is the full support for MU-MIMO technology, which was actually used in Wi-Fi 5, but only downstream MU-MIMO support was provided. Qualcomm's Wi-Fi 6 technology has been able to provide support for uplink MU-MIMO, which further strengthens the communication efficiency between the cell phone and the router and maintains the stability of use. For the current trend of live video streaming, uplink MU-MIMO technology is the core technology to ensure the stability of live streaming.
Fast, stable, and power-efficient, Qualcomm's end-to-end Wi-Fi 6 network experience is undoubtedly the Wi-Fi network experience that matches 5G networks. End-to-end support is one of Qualcomm's major strengths, and the docking of the Networking Pro series platform with Snapdragon mobile platforms enables users to get a smooth network experience with Qualcomm's Wi-Fi 6 technology. Wi-Fi 6 router products are now available in a wide range of choices, from top-of-the-line products that cost more than $1,000, to cost-effective products that cost as little as $200, thanks to Qualcomm's promotion. With a wide range of cost-effective products, the router will no longer be a constraint for Wi-Fi 6.
Focusing on the future, Wi-Fi 6E is ready to go
After the Wi-Fi 6 standard was formally established, Wi-Fi 6E, which expands the spectrum to the 6GHz band, has come to the forefront, expanding the spectrum to the resource-rich 6GHz band, with a total of 1200MHz of assignable spectrum resources. resources, with more than twice the total capacity of the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.
The addition of the 6GHz band brings an even better experience to the Wi-Fi 6E, with 20 percent more data throughput due to the addition of 4K QAM modulation in the 6GHz band, and Qualcomm's second-generation Networking Pro platform, tri-band Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, which can migrate backhaul traffic to the 6GHz band to alleviate 5G band congestion
On the mobile device, Qualcomm has prepared the FastConnect 6900/6700 connectivity system with support for Wi-Fi 6E. From the AP side to the mobile device, Qualcomm is ready to go, and we are looking forward to the release of more commercial products powered by Qualcomm's leading Wi-Fi solutions.
The mobile market in 2020 is full of changes, and there is no better time for a refresh, and there are so many technology aspects that we need to pay attention to, and Wi-Fi 6 is certainly one of them, both in the router and in the cellular device. For consumers who are already in the 5G era or are preparing for it, we don't want to be stuck with an unbalanced experience between Wi-Fi and cellular.