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By: Jon Gold 29 Nov. 2017 The world of enterprise Wi-Fi moves fast, but 2018 is going to see gear based on 802.11ac Wave 2 remain the state of the art – its successor, 802.11ax, is still one for the future. Wave 2 is the latest Wi-Fi standard to be certified by the IEEE. Its main technological in
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