{"id":260069,"date":"2018-05-15T07:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T05:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=260069"},"modified":"2018-05-15T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T05:40:36","slug":"new-wi-fi-easymesh-standard-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/260069-new-wi-fi-easymesh-standard-unveiled.html","title":{"rendered":"New Wi-Fi &#8220;EasyMesh&#8221; standard unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Wi-Fi Alliance has unveiled a new Wi-Fi standard which aims to let users easily create mesh Wi-Fi systems using multiple routers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wi-fi.org\/discover-wi-fi\/wi-fi-easymesh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EasyMesh<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from the alliance delivers a &#8220;standards-based approach&#8221; to deploying Wi-Fi networks consisting of multiple routers or access points from different vendors.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;extends uniform Wi-Fi coverage and enhances performance throughout a larger service than is\u00a0possible with a single access point&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wi-Fi EasyMesh allows users and service providers to select interoperable devices across different brands to ensure fast, wide, and reliable Wi-Fi coverage,&#8221; said the Wi-Fi Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>It said access points will organise themselves and establish high-performance Wi-Fi network connectivity with minimal effort from the user.<\/p>\n<p>Wi-Fi EasyMesh access points require support for 802.11n Wi-Fi devices, and support for 802.11ac is optional.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wi-Fi-Mesh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-260087\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wi-Fi-Mesh.jpg\" alt=\"Wi-Fi Mesh\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wi-Fi-Mesh.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wi-Fi-Mesh-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wi-Fi-Mesh-595x400.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/258713-poynting-launches-low-profile-lte-antenna.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Poynting launches low-profile LTE antenna<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Wi-Fi Alliance has unveiled a new Wi-Fi standard which aims to let users easily create mesh Wi-Fi systems using multiple routers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":138488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[749,33042],"class_list":["post-260069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-wi-fi","tag-wi-fi-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260079,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260069\/revisions\/260079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}