While the Kansas City Chiefs—from Missouri, by the way—and the San Francisco 49ers went head-to-head at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, another impressive show of strength and endurance was taking place. To be clear, I’m talking about signal strength, both cellular and Wi-Fi.
This...
Throughout 2019, we heard a constant drumbeat about newer, faster, better wireless technologies. These included Wi-Fi 6, 5G, CBRS, LoRaWAN, and a plethora of IoT-focused technologies, all backed up with reams of documentation and test results demonstrating their value over their peers.
But in the...
The economic value created by Wi-Fi in the U.S. is projected to double by 2023, reaching nearly $1 trillion
After what FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has referred to as “two decades of dormancy,” the FCC is taking a fresh look the 5.9 GHz band, ultimately...
Keysight Technologies has laid claim to being the first test equipment company to achieve Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) validation of a cellular vehicle-to-everything communications radio frequency conformance test case.
The test case validation took place in Austin, Texas on October 23, Keysight said, and...
University students will be in charge of managing the Wi-Fi 6 infrastructure year-round
In an initiative spearheaded by students, Extreme Networks will install its Wi-Fi 6 solution in West Texas A&M University’s (WTAMU) Buffalo Stadium. The enhanced Wi-Fi network will streamline game day operations and...
The acquisition gives Extreme Networks an edge in cloud management and Wi-Fi 6
In some ways, software-driven networking company Extreme Networks’ path to acquiring Aerohive Networks, a cloud-management networking company, began four years ago. That was when Extreme began assessing where its strengths and weakness were, Norman...
Wi-Fi provider Extreme Networks is buying Aerohive for $210 million, bringing some consolidation to the Wi-Fi market as the industry starts to ramp toward Wi-Fi 6 adoption and bolstering the company's addressable market with software-defined wide area networking capabilities and a subscription-service-oriented strategy.
Extreme will...
Did you know that 5G is going to replace Wi-Fi in the near future? That might sound like a fact for regular readers of the more hyperbolic commentary on the so-called 5G vs. Wi-Fi debate. But the truth is always more grounded than the...
Fans who make it to Super Bowl LII at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn. this weekend may not be able to get close to Eagles head coach Doug Pederson or the Patriots' Bill Bellicheck, but they will be able to touch base with...
Deloitte survey of mobile usage trends sees high penetration among the young; fast growth among elders
Mobile device usage patterns are jelling into a natural "etiquette" for device use that includes heavy use and frequent checking of devices -- but some usage appears to have...
