You may have noticed that in the last few weeks, the industry has been talking a lot about Wi-Fi 6E. Count Cisco among the conversation starters about Wi-Fi 6E too. In fact this Wireless blog has been chock-full of more and more posts talking about Wi-Fi 6E.

These conversations have probably lead to a number of questions: what about Wi-Fi 6? What's going on with that standard?

The answer to both questions is: no, Wi-Fi 6 isn't going anywhere. Wi-Fi 6E may be the new thing that we've been thinking about a lot lately, but Wi-Fi 6 is still here and it's still quite awesome.

Wi-Fi 6E extends Wi-Fi 6 into the 6GHz spectrum to deliver faster speeds, lower latency and more security (WPA3 is required) across the network.

Due to the opening of the 6GHz spectrum, Wi-Fi 6E is going to be big. But Wi-Fi 6 has the features and functionality that will keep your network humming along until more Wi-Fi 6E client devices are released and become more prominent. In other words, Wi-Fi 6 is not retiring anytime soon, which is good news because you can use this time to make sure that your network is ready for Wi-Fi 6E.

Let's review the current Wi-Fi 6 offerings from the Catalyst 9100 family and go over what Cisco has available.

For large-sized deployments, the Catalyst 9130 and 9120 are two access points up to the task. The Catalyst 9130 has up to four Wi-Fi radios: 5GHz flexible radio (single 8