But more important than its raw increase in throughput, experts agreed, is Wi-Fi 6 technology's efficiency gains, which result in higher capacity and lower latency overall. He expects Wi-Fi 6 will be the first standard to consistently exceed 1 Gbps in real-world implementations. "But I haven't talked to any company that did." "If you were sitting at your desk by yourself and no one else was attached to the network, you might have gotten a gigabit of connectivity from Wave 2," Kerravala said. That's why Wi-Fi 5 - advertised as "gigabit wireless" - failed to smash the gigabit barrier in actual practice, according to Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst of ZK Research. Experts caution, however, that max wireless speeds are typically unattainable except in perfect, laboratory-like conditions.
Wi-Fi 6 technology enables the fastest wireless networks to date, with theoretical maximum speeds of around 10 Gbps versus Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2's peak data rates of around 7 Gbps. "That gave us a good amount of confidence in our decision," he said. By the end of the season, as more Wi-Fi 6 devices started appearing on the end-user side - around 30% to 40% of total endpoints, Payne estimated - the stadium network's average speeds were already surpassing the theoretical maximum data rates for Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2. Ultimately, the university became one of the first adopters of Aruba Networks' Wi-Fi 6 gear, and he said it was worth the wait. "I held off on making the decision until the 11th hour," Payne said. Payne's team kept a close eye on vendors' anticipated Wi-Fi 6 ship dates, hoping they would align with the stadium's strict deployment timeline - aware that delays could force them to go with older Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2 technology instead. They had a tight schedule, however, as the network needed to be deployed and operational by the first game of the 2019 season. Billed as "high-efficiency wireless," IEEE designed Wi-Fi 6, also known as 802.11ax, to work faster but also smarter - combining higher data rates with new and improved transmission technologies that optimize the available throughput. But OU's experience suggests Wi-Fi 6 technology lives up to its hype. High-speed, low-latency connectivity capable of supporting live video streaming in such a dense environment was hard to imagine with previous generations of wireless. Sure enough, users were headed to the ESPN website. I'm sitting here watching and streaming the Texas game with no lag or interruption.'" That's when he started getting text messages from friends and colleagues still sitting in the stadium. Activity should be going down because the number of users is going down,'" Payne said.
He was startled, however, to see the exodus coincide with a spike in activity on the stadium's new wireless network - one of the earliest large-scale deployments of Wi-Fi 6 technology. Victory was all but certain - OU was leading South Dakota by 42 points - and the big LSU-Texas matchup had just gotten underway on ESPN. Still, David Payne, senior technology strategist in the university's athletics department, wasn't surprised when Sooner fans began filing out during the third quarter of an early-season game last fall.
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