Wi-Fi 6E Testing with LANforge

Wi-Fi 6E is an extension of the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard. It allows an unlicensed 6 GHz frequency band to be used. Wi-Fi 6E extends all the Wi-Fi 6 features and capabilities into the 6GHz band to allow greater efficiency, higher throughput, and increased security. With Wi-Fi 6E, a total of 1200MHz spectrum is available. This allows more capacity, wider channels, and less interference. Wi-Fi 6E devices operating on the 6GHz band have access to:

• 59 additional 20MHz channels
• 29 additional 40MHz channels
• 14 additional 80MHz channels
• 7 additional 160MHz channels

Below image represents the 6E testcases that we covered using our LANforge.

Slide Presentation for Candela 6E Test Solution

Wi-Fi 6E Test Cases

Fully Automated

Candela Technologies offers a fully automated Wi-Fi 6E test system. This includes all the required test hardware, including:

• multi-station emulator
• traffic generator
• RF enclosures
• turntable
• and programmable attenuators

With the CT523c LANforge chassis we can test all the features like:

• Airtime Fairness
• OFDMA
• MU-MIMO
• OWE

Block Diagram

This testbed uses 36 AX210 tri-band 2.4/5/6E radios for testing. The test setup, testbed components, and environment are all created as per our requirements.

Some of the components may be different than pictured depending on the options purchased. Please ask your sales representative for details.

Wi-Fi 6E Sample Charts

Example chart represents the download throughput across all the 6E channels.

Please see the below example results (Wi-Fi Capacity, Dataplane, Triband Performance, Latency etc.,) that we ran across with multiple 6E Access Point using our LANforge software

Example 6E report generated by LANforge