I'm dealing with intel AX200 chipsets (deployed to hundreds of sites only to find out they do not follow intel's own specification for PCIe (it's a 1X board tha

I'm dealing with intel AX200 chipsets (deployed to hundreds of sites only to find out they do not follow intel's own specification for PCIe (it's a 1X board that fails on any socket >1X) and that chipset handles a lot. From AP/Frequency/Channel negotiation one would expect, all the way to WPA3 which one would think to be on the software side, specially because we should trust OS kernel/drivers updates for generics such as WPA to be updated and validated faster than closed source firmware blobs. Now, I do not know if that is truly done on the firmware or the closed source drivers, because well, the drivers are closed source. But after you accept one binary blob, you might as well threat it all as integral part of the hardware. Who cares where it runs? i'm getting off topic :) but that is one tiny aspect of a consumer device. One would think that the routing/DPI/etc aspects of 5G hardware for tel Co to be an amplified version of that.