> iPhone 17 introduces N1, a new Apple-designed wireless networking chip that enables Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread.

What is Thread?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

> Thread is an IPv6-based, low-power mesh networking technology for Internet of things (IoT) products.

> Often used as a transport for Matter (the combination being known as Matter over Thread), the protocol has seen increased use for connecting low-power and battery-operated smart-home devices.

> Thread uses 6LoWPAN, which, in turn, uses the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol with mesh communication (in the 2.4 GHz spectrum), as do Zigbee and other systems. However, Thread is IP-addressable, with cloud access and AES encryption. A BSD-licensed open-source implementation of Thread called OpenThread is available from and managed by Google.

	▲	wltr 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you, stranger! And all the other sibling comments too. Sometimes, it’s not trivial to search things on my own, when I don’t understand what the result I’m looking for. Funny thing, I know very little of networking, but this bears more sense than just Thread.

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omnicognate 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A very badly named mesh networking protocol designed for IoT applications, usually used as the transport layer for the equally badly named "Matter" IoT protocol.

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somanyphotons 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

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sertsa 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A newish IOT protocol, think Zigbee 2.0 kinda.

https://www.threadgroup.org/

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wrigby 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thread is a mesh networking protocol mostly targeted at IoT and smart-home connectivity - it's basically a Zigbee competitor.

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ComputerGuru 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Zigbee like thing for IoT and Matter.