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Emerging networking trends in wireless technology – By Aditya Abeysinghe Wi-Fi 5 and higher Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) has become one of the most common wireless standards used.  Several Wi-Fi versions have risen and each version has improved the speed, security, and bandwidth of wireless connections. Wi-Fi 5 was the mostly used version until a few years back and wireless devices that were manufactured in the last few years have supported Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 6 uses both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency and is often three or four times faster than Wi-Fi 4 and Wi-Fi 5. Theoretical throughput is often closer to a speed of 9.6 Gbps while Wi-Fi 5 can support only a speed around 3.5 Gbps. Due to this speed, many streaming and gaming applications can operate with less latency when using online services. Wi-Fi 6 also has more security as Simultaneous Authentication of Equals method of authentication ...