Meredith Attwell Baker, President and CEO of CTIA, helps us better understand what we have been experiencing on the wireless networks in the last few months through the COVID-19 pandemic. The CTIA says our wireless networks kept American’s connected through the coronavirus in new...
Cambium Networks CEO: 'Now you can converge the WAN and the LAN'
Cambium Networks believes that wireless is the new fiber and is embracing both Wi-Fi 6 and 60 GHz mmWave technology. According to Atul Bhatnagar, Cambium Networks CEO, doing so has made it possible...
Wi-Fi 6E will deliver 1020 MHz of additional spectrum
Wi-Fi 6E is still awaiting regulatory approval in Europe and some other regions around the world; however, in the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission voted to open up the 6 GHz spectrum for unlicensed Wi-Fi use...
With the recent FCC announcement to make the 6 GHz band available for unlicensed use, it is important to understand the significance of this event. This decision carves out 1.2 GHz of contiguous spectrum (5.925 – 7.125 GHz) and represents the largest amount of...
The year 2020 will certainly go down in history as a remarkable one for Wi-Fi, as the industry is being awarded massive increases in spectrum.
On April 23, the U.S. FCC voted to make available 1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band for...
In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with contemporary AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space. Here is the interview, in...
Qualcomm has more than 70 Wi-Fi 6-enabled devices and more than 200 AP and gateway designs
Last month, the FCC opened up the 6 GHz frequency band for use by Wi-Fi 6 technology, a decision that is receiving substantial industry praise. Qualcomm is no different,...
The decision last week by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band in the US available for unlicensed usage, covering low-power operations over the full allocation and standard-power devices in 850MHz of the band, is a...
Wi-Fi Alliance exec: 'Think about what we can accomplish with what we’ve just been given with Wi-Fi 6E'
Wi-Fi Alliance’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Kevin Robinson told RCR Wireless News that the Alliance is thrilled about the FCC’s decision to open 6 GHz for unlicensed...
When you think of 6 GHz and wireless, it’s natural to think of 5G. It’s the top end of the LTE frequency range, and above where you think of other wireless technologies like Wi-Fi operating. But it turns out that Wi-Fi has been feeling...
Mist Co-Founder: "Wi-Fi is entering into the business-critical phase"
In June of last year, Mist, a Juniper company, made major strides with their cloud-managed Wi-Fi 6 access points, and now that more devices are Wi-Fi 6 are in-market, the company says that new use cases are...
As sports fans know all too well, arenas and stadiums are struggling to keep up with their appetite for social networking and mobile connectivity. It can be an issue for any high-density place – concert venues, meeting halls, malls, apartment buildings, even some office...
The city of Sunderland in the UK is looking to establish a ‘strategic consortium’ and procure a “strategic delivery partner” to establish the country’s first city-owned ‘neutral host’ network for 5G and fibre. It wants to lease space on the network to mobile operators...
5G requires more high-powered, RRUs and, in some regions, a shift to massive MIMO architecture, says CommScope
BARCELONA--The implementation of 5G requires more radio units, more cell sites, more power. But at the same time, operators are looking for solutions that have minimal impact on...
Reflecting on a track-record of firsts, Boingo Wireless CEO Mike Finley discussed the company's focus on providing carrier services as 5G becomes a commercial reality and operators tap new licensed, unlicensed and shared spectrum to keep up with insatiable demand for mobile connectivity.
Finley, who...
Wi-Fi 6E refers to extending Wi-Fi 6 into the 6 GHz band
Wi-Fi 6 trials, performed by companies like Cisco, Boingo and the Wireless Broadband Alliance, demonstrated that, even when used in challenging environments that demand a ton of connected devices—crowded sporting events, highly-trafficked airports...
Wi-Fi 6 to boost speed by 40% for Mobile World Congress Barcelona
In preparation for Mobile World Congress Barcelona taking place at the end of February, the venue where the show will take place, Fira Barcelona, has begun working with Cisco to deploy Wi-Fi 6...
UK regulator Ofcom is proposing to make 500MHz of contiguous spectrum in the lower 6 GHz band available for unlicensed indoor Wi-Fi and low-power outdoor Wi-Fi usage. It has also revealed plans to release an additional 18GHz of Extremely High Frequency (EHF) spectrum, above...
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...
ABI Research has poured water on the idea Wi-Fi 6 will gain mass adoption in the IoT space in the near-term. It has also said a few dominant chipset vendors will squeeze out new entrants in the IoT market, that low-power wide-area tech standards...
In a hyper-connected world, Wi-Fi 6 and 5G have a complementary relationship
Ubiquitous access to connectivity has changed the way we all live and work. In tandem with the revolution that encompasses the fifth generation of cellular, Wi-Fi continues to evolve to support not just...
Extreme Networks announced the?National Football League's Tennessee Titans will use its solutions as it upgrades its stadium to Wi-Fi 6, which will provide tens of thousands of fans with faster speeds and higher-performance connectivity on game day, the firm said in a statement.
"Wi-Fi 6...
Wi-fi has always been symbiotic for cellular, Qualcomm exec says
Between Qualcomm’s reveal of its new Snapdragon Ride Platform, a two-chip autonomous vehicles platform designed to help automakers and Tier 1 suppliers achieve true vehicle autonomy faster and the announcement of aptXTM Voice audio, a...
The new IEEE 802.11ax amendment (Wi-Fi 6) intends to improve the WLAN system efficiency, focusing on the throughput per station in dense and outdoor environments. Wi-Fi 6 allows for the first time the scheduled communication of several stations (STA) at the same time, to...
