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via Flickr © Yahoo (CC BY 2.0) Lack of quality of service levers has to now doomed Wi-Fi to a “cheap and cheerful” network role But the Wi-Fi Alliance says it has developed the technology to change all that It’s introducing standardized mechanisms to allow client applications to request proper QoS treatment Wi-Fi is entering 2021 on a bit of a roll. Wi-Fi 6 is beginning to make itself felt globally as it turns up on top-end devices, smartphones and hubs as Wi-Fi 6 chip prices crash down to manageable levels. Meanwhile “Whole-home” managed Wi-Fi, after years of ‘coming soon’ cha...

The Wi-Fi Alliance has kicked off a new certification program that brings a standardized approach to traffic prioritization when traffic demands exceed the available bandwidth on the network. As a QoS-related step beyond Wi-Fi's traditional equal priority access approach, the new certification program centers on enabling Wi-Fi devices, applications and network managers to prioritize traffic flows, ensuring that traffic for real-time applications and services is inserted into queues with higher priority. This new Wi-Fi QoS Management capability benefits all generations of Wi-Fi, including Wi...