Getting back into the habit of scanning the RSS feeds while traveling, and came across this article on Fierce Wireless:
Two things jumped out at me.
First … with the QCA9377 chipset, it looks like the 802.11ac wave 2 clients supporting MU-MIMO are getting to the market potentially quicker than I expected. Granted, the chip had to be created before the gadget vendors could start incorporating it into products, not to mention needing to test firmware and iron out any interoperability issues, but still it’s a mark of progress.
Secondly, what’s with “802.11ac 2.0”? Is this like the old “5G” moniker that was tried to put on some of the original 802.11ac products to get them to stand out for consumers? We seemed to have a pretty well understood and adopted nomenclature around wave 1 and wave 2 functionality. Does having individual vendors adding marketing labels to the functionality help or hurt market adoption and understanding of the technology?
Either way, get ready for some new clients on the networks!