In a new WBA report, 81% of respondents said they are planning to deploy Wi-Fi OpenRoaming
According to a new report from the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), 81% of the 170 industry executives survey are planning to deploy OpenRoaming. Of those, 25% were already rolling...
The Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Standing Committee is tasked with exploring AI/ML use cases that will apply to Wi-Fi systems and devices
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being applied everywhere and to everything; and according to Purva Rajkotia, who serves as the lead...
IDC predicts that 807.5 million 6 GHz Wi-Fi devices will ship in 2024, up 66% in 2023
In April 2020, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially opened up the 6 GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, resulting in the introduction of Wi-Fi 6E, and in...
The use of mmWave links in Wi-Fi 8 is expected to deliver higher bandwidth and data rates
Even though the certification for Wi-Fi 8, or 802.11bn, is still several years away, vendors and standards bodies are already formulating plans around what Wi-Fi 8 will be...
MAPC builds upon the network management improvements of previous generations of Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 7, or 802.11be, was only certified in January and its adoption is just beginning to ramp up; however, whispers of Wi-Fi 8, or 802.11bn, are beginning to circulate, with some of its...
MRU in Wi-Fi 7 builds off OFDMA, a feature first introduced in Wi-Fi 6
Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) is a new feature in Wi-Fi 7 that builds off another feature first introduced in Wi-Fi 6: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, or OFDMA. OFDMA establishes independently...
Forty-four percent of service providers, technology vendors and enterprises plan to adopt Wi-Fi 6E in the next 12-18 months: Report
In October, the Wireless Broadband Alliance released its Annual Industry Report for 2023 and found that 53% of service providers, technology vendors and enterprises have...
Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation
In order for unlicensed Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) devices to play nice in the 6 GHz band with the licensed users already occupying that band, the Federal Communications Commission...
'Wi-Fi 7 breaks most testing equipment out there': LitePoint exec
Wi-Fi 7, designed with the 6 GHz band in mind, has a host of exciting new features that promise higher spectrum and power efficiency, better interference mitigations, higher capacity density and higher cost efficiency. But many...
'We didn’t quite realize the magnitude of taking a well-adopted, single-user technology and making it multi-user,' says LitePoint exec
Certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2019 and based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, Wi-Fi 6 is designed for high-density, multi-user environments and features uplink and...
