BROWSING: Wi-Fi

Supply chain platform partners with iPass Wi-Fi for asset tracking

Armada today announced a partnership with iPass, an out-of-home Wi-Fi provider. Armada produces a supply chain visibility platform, which will use iPass’s network and analytics to track the location data of goods moving across a supply chain. Armada places its "internet of things" tiles, or...

Supply chain platform partners with iPass Wi-Fi for asset tracking

Armada today announced a partnership with iPass, an out-of-home Wi-Fi provider. Armada produces a supply chain visibility platform, which will use iPass’s network and analytics to track the location data of goods moving across a supply chain. Armada places its "internet of things" tiles, or...

For the hospitality industry, Wi-Fi is a key aspect of customer experience

Hospitality Wi-Fi case study: Copper Mountain ski resort With a compound annual growth rate of more than 20%, according to Markets and Markets, the Wi-Fi technology market is forecast to be worth more than $30 billion by 2020, with adoption in the retail and hospitality...

Analyst Angle: Monetizing Wi-Fi virtualization

Internet connectivity is now no longer a luxury. Users expect to be online wherever they are, tapping into Wi-Fi connections in the same way they expect to find electricity and power sockets for recharging their mobile devices. The internet of things with machines, sensors,...

Ruckus back on the block as Broadcom buys Brocade

Ruckus Wireless is back in play thanks to another wireless technology merger. Broadcom Limited is looking to acquire Brocade Communications for $5.9 billion, with plans to divest Ruckus, which Brocade purchased for $1.2 billion this spring. Broadcom, a California company that designs chips for wireless...

LTE standards provide new levels of efficiency for IoT

As the internet of things grows, LTE-based technologies will shape 5G Part of the vision for 5G is a single, unified air interface capable of supporting everything from massive numbers of internet of things devices and sensors requiring low levels of throughput to mission critical...

Google Fiber pauses operations, loses CEO and cuts 9% of workforce

Google Fiber, a slowly sinking ship Google Fiber will be halting its operations in 10 "potential Fiber cities" while it refines its approaches, according to a blog post by Craig Barratt, SVP of Alphabet and CEO of Access. In yesterday's post, Barratt stated Google Fiber must...

5G New Radio (NR) will create a unified air interface

From NB-IoT to Enhanced Mobile Broadband, 5G NR will have it covered “5G New Radio (NR) is the wireless standard that will become the foundation for the next generation of mobile networks. Whereas 3G and 4G connected people, 5G will connect everything—a unifying connectivity fabric...

Ericsson veterans take on enterprise Wi-Fi with Comcast backing

Artificial intelligence is not just for connected cars and video games, according to former Ericsson employees who have set out to disrupt the $12 billion market for wireless local area networks. KodaCloud, a startup led by veterans of Ericsson and BelAir Networks, is betting...

LTE Advanced Pro enables Gigabit LTE on path to 5G

Carrier aggregation, combo of licensed and unlicensed spectrum, and massive MIMO are key 5G technologies Although 5G has not been fully defined, the next-generation wireless connectivity standard will certainly provide multi-gigabit data throughputs by tapping into carrier aggregation, massive MIMO and simultaneous use of licensed...

Analyst Angle Report: Massively densified networks: Why we need them and how we can build them

Densification is more than small cells. Or DAS. Or Wi-Fi. The demand to carry more traffic, to more device types, with more reliability and lower latency creates the need for networks that not only have a higher density of RAN access points, but that...

Mobilizing mm wave is a key component of 5G

FCC’s Spectrum Frontiers will open up 11 gigahertz of mm wave for 5G The vision for 5G is expansive, but one aspect of it is fiber-like connections providing multi-gigabit per second data rates to mobile devices. This connectivity will make services like 3D telepresence and...

Analyst Angle: Densification in the middleprise

A conversation about densification with Ken Sandfeld, president of SOLiD America The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified networks. Why we need them and how we can build them.” Most of large venues have indoor infrastructure. The...

Analyst Angle: Densification from the chipset to small cells

A conversation about densification and small cells with Nivi Thadasina, senior director of 5G and 4G engineering at Samsung Electronics America The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified networks. Why we need them and how we can...

Analyst Angle: Managing interference in densified networks

A conversation about interference with Tom Elliott, Sr. Product Manager, Anritsu The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified networks. Why we need them and how we can build them.” Interference identification and management in dense, multilayer networks...

C-V2X is paving the way to fully-autonomous driving

The path to 5G will be marked with continued LTE advancements in Release 14 Next-generation 5G network technology, set for standardization in the 2019-2020 timeframe, is poised to enable a wide range of use cases ranging from remote industrial control and support for massive machine-type communication...

Analyst Angle: Technology enablers for densification

A conversation about densification with Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu, senior researcher at DOCOMO Innovations The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified networks. Why we need them and how we can build them.” Densification changes the intercell site dynamics. We...

Corning Webinar: The Dynamic Collaboration of Carriers and the Enterprise with In-Building Wireless

Successful organizations today are leveraging technology for strategic advantage to improve business outcomes. New opportunities are being created through digitization and the establishment of smart buildings which are not only intelligent but fully connected. Enterprises find themselves connecting more devices, people, and processes. In-building...

Analyst Angle: The many roads to densification

A conversation about densification with Andy Sutton, principal network architect at BT The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified networks. Why we need them and how we can build them.” them.” Andy Sutton, principal network architect at BT,...

Analyst Angle: Testing a densified network

How does a densified network change the way carriers test their networks? We discussed this topic with Jeremy Cline, North America Product Manager, and Rob Wattenburg, North America SwissQual Business Director. The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified...

A view on densification from the enterprise

A conversation about densification with a Director of Network Architecture and Strategy at a US-based global manufacturing and retail corporation The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified networks. Why we need them and how we can...

8 months in, LinkNYC smart city project pulls plug on web browsing

Apparently homeless people were hogging the tablets at LinkNYC kiosks to watch porn Due to "unexpected challenges," managers of the LinkNYC project, which in eight months has installed some 400 "link" kiosks in three New York City boroughs, are disconnecting internet browsing on the tablets. Using...

Apple and Cisco get down to business

Apple and Cisco are making good on last year's promise to team up in support of business mobility. With the release of Apple's iOS 10 operating system, iPhones and iPads will optimize Wi-Fi with Cisco access points. Tests conducted by the companies have shown that...

Reality Check: Carriers can fight churn with Wi-Fi

As new smartphone customers become harder to find in the U.S. mobile market, carriers are shifting their operational focus from growth in average revenue per user growth to churn management, according to recent research from Parks Associates. In this mode the carrier must adjust its...