Next Generation Wi-Fi - Deployment Guidelines and Benefits of Massive MIMO for the Enterprise.

Wi-Fi technology is continuously evolving to keep the pace with the fast-increasing demand for new digital services and applications. In particular, Wi-Fi 6 is becoming widely available in residential and enterprise scenarios supporting up to eight spatial streams. At the same time, large antenna arrays have already shown their ability and benefits when serving a large number of devices simultaneously. Since enterprise owners are already upgrading their indoor private networks with the next generation of Wi-Fi products, it becomes crucial to understand the capacity limits and the benefits associated to different deployment strategies and large antenna array configurations. The scope of this paper is to provide concrete insights to internet service providers and enterprise owners on how to upgrade, deploy, and efficiently operate their networks with next-generation Wi-Fi access points, showing their potential performance improvements and providing a set of clear guidelines.