Wireless Data Offloading Strategies for Buses and Rail in Depots: Wi-Fi 6E vs. mmWave Comparison - Millimeter wave components and systems, waveguide antennas, standard gain horns, MM wave radars

How fast is Wi-Fi 6E compared to wireless mm-wave Ethernet?

In our new article on Linkedin, we primarily focus on the capabilities of Wi-Fi communications for data offloading compared to wireless 10GbE Ethernet 802.3. The current options for wirelessly offloading data and videos from buses and rail fleets include Wi-Fi, 5G cellular, and mm-wave wireless solutions that utilize the standard Ethernet 802.3 protocol wirelessly (an example being the ELVA-1 MobiBridge-10G terminal).

Fleet mass transit operators consider Wi-Fi access points, routers, and client devices as the primary technology for data offloading. Unfortunately, this approach typically works poorly because the Wi-Fi protocol has not been designed for such heavy-duty offloading applications.

At the time of writing this article, Wi-Fi 6E IEEE 802.11ax is the most advanced Wi-Fi technology on the market, and we conducted our test to see if this V2N data rate is sufficient and how fast it is.

ELVA-1 lab has conducted Wi-Fi 6E testing to answer the following questions:

1. Does Wi-Fi 6E provide 6 gigabits per second speed as advertised by the manufacturers?
The answer is NO!

2. If there is more than one connection, do all Wi-Fi 6E client devices receive the full data rate that the access point router is capable of?
The answer is NO!

ELVA-1 cutting-edge 60 GHz MobiBridge-10G radios are designed for 10gbps data offload in the mass transit transportation industry. E-band radio link was also in the booth. It offers high capacity up to 10Gbps full duplex and a light licensing scheme in many countries, ensuring freedom from interference at low costs of spectrum usage.

Please feel free to contact ELVA-1 for the MobiBridge price and delivery info.

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MobiBridge-10G is a product of ELVA-1 OU