6 GHz channels

- [Narrator] For over two decades, wifi networks relied on the 2.4-gigahertz and five-gigahertz frequency bands. Then in 2021, an extension was added to the Wifi 6 standard, also known as the IEEE 802.11 AX standard. And this extension was called a Wifi 6E, and it added support for the six-gigahertz frequency band, which gives our wireless networks an additional 1200 megahertz of frequency range to use. In fact, if we're just using 20-megahertz channel widths, the six-gigahertz band would support 59 non-overlapping channels. However, we typically bond multiple 20-megahertz channels together. That allows us to have more simultaneous communication streams. And with the six-gigahertz band, if we used 160-megahertz channel widths, which we could get by bonding together eight 20-megahertz channels, we could have seven non-overlapping 160-megahertz channels. Compare that to only two non-overlapping 160-megahertz channels supported by the five-gigahertz band. And while the six-gigahertz band…