Next Gen Wifi Will Be Called Wi Fi 6 Instead Of 802 11Ax

This should make Wi-Fi product descriptions a lot easier to read. The Wi-Fi alliance announced this change via an official blog post, where tit said that the new naming convention provides users with an ‘easy-to-understand’ designation while buying a device with wireless connectivity.

Just like with Bluetooth, you can now easily tell which generation is the latest. Talking about the new naming scheme for Wi-Fi technologies, Edgar Figueroa, President and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance, in a press statement said, The new scheme also applies to older versions of Wi-Fi standard. Here’s the new naming scheme of all the Wi-Fi generations:

Wi-Fi 1 – 802.11b Wi-Fi 2 – 802.11a Wi-Fi 3 – 802.11g Wi-Fi 4 – 802.11n Wi-Fi 5 – 802.11ac Wi-Fi 6 – 802.11ax

The Wi-Fi Alliance has also given a look at how the Wi-Fi technologies will be represented visually by product makers or OS vendors.

They will be able to include the new Wi-Fi logo into their products to make users aware of the Wi-Fi standard being used in the same. We can expect to see Wi-Fi 6 devices, certified by the organization, early next year.