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Shaping the future of Wi-Fi technology

You’ve probably heard of the new generation of Wi-Fi, with the code-name of 802.11ac. It now massively enters the market to enable more throughput in all devices, breaking the Gbps barrier for some chipset configurations and meeting our needs to build services on Wi-Fi for the incoming years.


In the meantime, as a result of internal research on the needed evolution towards a Carrier-grade Wi-Fi, Orange has been particularly involved in the creation of a new standardization group to shape the generation of Wi-Fi that will follow 802.11ac. Under its name 802.11ax, it will reach market in 2017-18.
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