WiFi has been put on the backfoot by 5G in the rapidly expanding industrial IoT sector but the recent release of an enterprise WiFi 6E set of access points (APs) by HPE subsidiary Aruba was designed to be more competitive on that front. However, the main thrust will be to shore up the existing user base among other enterprise sites such as offices and general campuses, rather than emerging applications that call for ultra-low latency or the highest security. WiFi 6E is the extension of WiFi 6 into the 6 GHz band, which in the US was opened up in April 2020 for unlicensed use, a move that has now been emulated by around 40 other countries. This more…