An interview with CENIC CEO Louis Fox reveals the interconnectedness and importance of broadband and wireless to researchers and community at large.
CENIC — the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California — wants to connect the state of California into one giant wireless mesh network. With...
Wi-Fi’s massive success (more than half of mobile device traffic is over Wi-Fi) has not stopped Wi-Fi from evolving. Wi-Fi continues to improve in performance, ease of use, and its ability to meet demanding use cases, such as voice, real-time high-definition video, IoT applications,...
Derek Peterson talks future of 5G and Wi-FI
In this Q&A with Derek Peterson, chief technology officer at Boing Wireless, the executive continues to spread his message of network and spectral convergence in the context of the parallel evolutions of Wi-Fi and 5G.
Q: Boingo obviously...
Cellular is increasingly expanding into unlicensed Wi-Fi frequencies
The 3GPP has finalized the non-standalone and standalone 5G New Radio (NR) standards and is further defining the next generation of cellar to align with IMT-2020 performance requirements. Wi-Fi is simultaneously following a develop roadmap, laid out...
Charter and Comcast are both using Verizon spectrum for mobile services
As traditional cable companies increasingly enter the wireless area and wireless companies look to leverage their networks to provide mobile video content, Charter Communications entered the fray June 30 with the launch of its...
IEEE Wi-Fi roadmap calls for continued enhancements with ax, WiGig and ad variants of 802.11 standard
While it's not the subject of the generational hype cycles that influence the cellular segment—3G to 4G to 5G—the Wi-Fi industry is steadily enhancing the capabilities of the ubiquitous...
With cellular and Wi-Fi, "You need them both," analyst says
Commercial, standards-based 5G deployments are set to go live later this year. At the same time, Wi-Fi continues to see capacity enhancements, most recently, with the commercialization of products based on the IEEE's 802.11ax specification....
A Q&A with Wi-Fi expert Claus Hetting
RCR Wireless News recently discussed the evolution of Wi-Fi with Claus Hetting, CEO and chairman of Wi-Fi Now, a firm that evangelizes all things Wi-Fi, as well as provides consulting services, trend analysis and conference programming.
The telecoms industry...
Wi-Fi continues to evolve with IEEE 802.11ax, 802.11ad and 802.11ay standards
Operators the world over are looking to commercialize multi-gigabit, low latency 5G services; it's the predominant source of hype in the telecoms world and is touted as ultimately providing ubiquitous connectivity that will deliver...
IoT boosts WLAN market for enterprise-class outdoor products.
The wireless local area network (WLAN) is far from dead. On the contrary, the internet of things (IoT), emerging markets and startups will grow the enterprise-class and outdoor WLAN product market to over 35% greater than 2017...
The next generation of Wi-Fi security is now available, with a new certification program for Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 just launched by Wi-Fi Alliance.
Here is a basic introduction to WPA3, in a Q&A with answers provided by Wi-Fi Alliance. Answers have been condensed and...
We were privileged to speak with Shawn Omstead, VP Residential Products at Bell Canada for the preparation of our upcoming report “From Managed Home Wi-Fi to Enabling the Secure Smart Home 2018-2023” on managed home Wi-Fi. We provide here a summary of our conversation.
What do you...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed a $15 million 18-month overhaul of Gatwick Airport’s IT systems, which it has compared to performing open-heart surgery while the patient is running.
The work has covered the introduction of an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) network, a 30mbps public...
The European Commission (EC) is inviting municipal authorities to apply for €15,000 vouchers to finance Wi-Fi equipment and installation in public spaces. Vouchers worth €17.75 million in total will be made available to 1,183 municipalities in European Union (EU) member states in the next...
Boingo ended the first quarter with 41 DAS venues live and 84 DAS venues in backlog
Revenue from the distributed antenna system (DAS) segment accounted for 41% of Boingo Wireless’ overall revenue in the first quarter of the year, up from a contribution of 37%...
With the recent purchase of InterDigital's XCellAir, European managed Wi-Fi company Fon seeks to help network operators capitalize on their Wi-Fi presence in residential homes -- and get a foothold in the U.S market while they do so.
XCellAir focuses on cloud-based quality of experience...
Charter Communications aims to to launch a MVNO through a partnership with Verizon
U.S. cable operator Charter Communications expects to launch mobile services through a mobile virtual network operator by mid-year, the operator’s chairman and CEO, Thomas Rutledge, said during a recent conference call with...
The deployment initially includes a total of 50 small cells with plans of deploying additional small cells during the coming months
UK firm Cambridge Communication Systems (CCS) has announces the completion of a next-generation small cell network in London’s Square Mile.
The first phase of deployment...
Military connectivity is major revenue driver for Boingo
While Boingo Wireless is largely known for providing Wi-Fi at large venues like stadia and airports, the company provides a range of services including Wi-Fi and TV for service men and women living in military barracks throughout...
Although the standard for the next generation of Wi-Fi technology hasn't been officially finalized, that hasn't stopped chipsets, reference designs and test equipment from making it to the market to support the transition to 802.11ax.
The 802.11ax ecosystem has begun picking up steam, with products...
Wi-Fi has enjoyed a quasi-monopolistic usage of the 5 GHz in the last few years but that is changing as Multefire and LTE Unlicensed in general are making inroads in once considered “Wi-Fi” bands. We thus feel it is about time we ask how these new...
Wide range of partners collaborated on Wi-Fi deployment for Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the premiere event for telecom industry professionals. As such, the more than 100,000 people who descend on the Catalan capital each year have relatively high expectations related...
Eastlink chooses Ericsson as VoLTE supplier in Canada
Eastlink announced it has selected Ericsson as its core network supplier for voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) services in Canada. According to Eastlink, the collaboration will enable it to offer resilient services, and provide a basis for Wi-Fi calling and...
Wi-Fi installed base expected to hit 9.5 billion this year
Wi-Fi Alliance will begin certifying new security features for Wi-Fi Protected Access, the WPA2 protocol that is commonly relied upon for Wi-Fi security, and next-generation WPA3 is on its way with new features that...
