As connected medical devices and patient devices evolve, wireless healthcare networks require predictable throughput, latency and reliability.
Through the adoption of Wi-Fi 6E, healthcare providers can expect more efficient use of spectrum and a lower likelihood of collisions, leading to lower latency and improved performance.
The biggest benefits introduced by Wi-Fi 6E are the increase in available radio frequency spectrum and channels and the addition of 6-gigahertz operation, which will double the available spectrum within FCC regulatory domains.
With Wi-Fi 6E, healthcare organizations can use 40-megahertz or 80MHz channels with the same radio resource management (RRM) channel re-use factor, which improves total throughput per access point (AP) and the maximum burst rate for devices.
“It’s like adding a whole other set of lanes to a highway,” says David Logan, HPE Aruba Networking CTO for the Americas. “With the increased band, we’re freeing up space for IoT medical devices by moving everyone else’s more powerful personal devices — things like laptops and smartphones — onto the 6E network.”
He sees building in Wi-Fi 6E as creating a wireless highway “for the next 10 years,” when Wi-Fi 7 will be ready to deploy.
“If our healthcare customers are doing any kind of an upgrade, this is the opportunity to make a change that will carry them through the next decade,” Logan says.
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