Lots of people just don't care about the technical details of why it's better from a consumer point
of view.
And if you're explaining this to management, it becomes very easy.
Six is better than five.
I'm walking here in the forest.
Why does that matter?
Well, the great thing is, I can pull out my phone and I can still check my email if I want to.
Now, for a lot of us, when we go out into nature, we don't want to have access to the Internet.
But I think for many of us, we still want to be connected.
Now, the great thing about the cellular network is I can see how good my signal is by simply looking
at my phone.
It's just shifted actually from 3G to 4G.
So I know that 4G is better than 3G because of the simple numbering convention used in cellular networks.
I know that 5G is going to be better than 4G and 4G is better than 3G simply because of the numbers.
So really happy that I've walked up this hill a bit, a bit out of breath, but my signal has improved
from 3G to 4G, which is great.
Internet connection is now better, but in wi fi we don't have that.
Well, we didn't have that.
We had weird numbers and names like 8 to 11 B in the past.
From a non-technical users point of view, they just didn't seem to be any logic.
We have edited at 11 B and then we go to A and then suddenly we go to G and then we go to N and then
we go to a, C and now X.
There's no logic in that.
So you know which channels are used?
Who cares about the channels?
If you're a non-technical user, all you care about is speed and reliability.
So which standard allows me to connect to the Internet more quickly with less trouble and which one
is quicker?
All I care about is getting to Facebook as a user.
I don't care about the underlying infrastructure.
I mean, as an analogy, do you care how your electricity gets to your house?
No.
All you care about is that when you turn the lights on, they go on.
So from a non-technical user's point of view, the same thing applies.
They don't care if A is better than G, it's better than A, C or whatever.
They just want better throughput, better reliability.
And I think the wi fi alliance has done something really good here.
They've changed the naming convention used.
They've changed the name.
So rather than talking about a C or a X from a layman's point of view or a non-technical user's point
of view, we can now talk about wi fi six, wi fi five, wi fi four.
So n is wi fi four not as good as a C, which is wi fi five which is not good as a six which is wi fi
six.
It's so much easier for a non technical user to understand which wi fi is better.
Six is obviously better than five, which is obviously better than four.
And guess what?
Yeah, I've got a 4G connection.
I know once again that 4G is better than 3G, which is better than 2G.
I don't have to understand the technical details of why it's better.
I just know it's better because four is better than three.
And in the same way I know as a consumer or user non-technical person, that wi fi six is better than
wi fi five better than wi fi four for lots of people just don't care about the technical details of
why it's better from a consumer point of view.
And if you're explaining this to management, it becomes very easy.
Six is better than five.
If they want to know the technical details, you can get into the technical details and we'll discuss
that in this video.
But you don't have to.
You can simply say six is better than five, just like you and probably many people at, you know,
just to just assume or know in inverted commas that 4G is better than 3G and they'll know that five
G is better than 4G.
We just assume that because that's what we've been told without actually understanding necessarily.
It may not be true for you, but for a lot of people the technical details of why 4G is better than
3G.
As a consumer, we just realize that if we get a 4G connection, the Internet is going to be faster.
So I'm going to be happier.
Same is true now for wi fi.
If I get a wi fi six router, I'm going to be a lot happier then someone who's got a wi fi three router
or wi fi full router because it's going to be quicker, it's going to be better, it's going to be easier
to connect.
And all I care about is getting to Facebook, getting to Instagram, getting to certain websites as
quickly as I can.
I don't care about the technical details.
So this rebranding exercise makes a lot of sense, and it makes it a lot easier for vendors to brand
their routers and their wireless devices so that users know which device is better.
A device with a branding of six is going to be better than a device with a branding of five or four.
Just like we know that five G is better than 4G, which is better than 3G.
So makes a lot of sense.