The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 Release 2, adding support for uplink multi-user multiple input, multiple output (UL MU-MIMO). This feature allows wireless access point devices to handle more user streams simultaneously. As user trends shift towards increased upstream activity, such as cloud storage, livestreaming, and uploading videos to social media platforms, this technological upgrade will help make uplink connections faster, reduce latency, and enhance reliability.
Additionally, three new power management features will improve Wi-Fi 6 device power efficiency, primarily benefiting enterprise, industrial, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. New low-power and sleep-mode enhancements—including Broadcast Target Wake Time (TWT), extended sleep time, and dynamic multi-user spatial multiplexing power save (SMPS)—enable improved power management, particularly benefiting battery-powered devices.
MediaTek Filogic Wi-Fi 6 chipsets, such as the recently launched Filogic 830 and 630, already support Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 Release 2 features, including UL MU-MIMO. Meanwhile, the IoT-focused Filogic 130/130A supports the new power-efficiency enhancements.
Included as part of the standardized test bed of chipsets used by the Wi-Fi Alliance, MediaTek Filogic platforms are already helping drive the adoption of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 Release 2.