A new “forecast report” by analyst house Dell’Oro Group, says revenue from the sale of radio access network (RAN) equipment for private 4G (LTE) and 5G deployments in the global enterprise market grew by 24 percent in the second quarter of 2024. The result...
Cisco has just issued a research study about the state of networking in the broad Industry 4.0 sector, and it is really good – comprehensive, and well communicated. Quite how much of it is genuinely new or surprising is open to debate, but it...
The fourth quarter of 2022 saw record shipments of enterprise-geared wireless LAN (WLAN) devices, mostly Wi-Fi devices, with volumes topping 10 million in the period, according to research firm Dell’Oro Group. Revenues spiralled upwards, alongside, to reach $3 billion, also a record. Cisco shipped...
The thought of Wi-Fi 6E has had technologists salivating over access to pristine spectrum. It is like having the beach front to yourself. No traffic from other users. No one getting sand on your towel.
From a protocol stack perspective, Wi-Fi 6E is the same...
WLAN is a cable-less technology for data communications typically using Ethernet over a local area. The first IEEE 802.11 standard regulating WLAN technology, released in 1997, supported only the 2.4 GHz band, but in 2020 the WLAN technology has begun supporting the 6 GHz...
Cellular vs. Wi-Fi
The cellular and Wi-Fi worlds have always maintained somewhat of a love-hate relationship. I’ve personally lost count of how many times I’ve heard about convergence, offload, integration and complementarity technology.
The reality? Development and sales in certain market segments were primarily determined by...
Soft Wireless LAN market results caused analysts to ask: is this the calm before the storm?
The wireless LAN market showed mixed results in the second quarter of 2019, according to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group. In a press release, the Dell’Oro Group...
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...
Take WLAN technology ideas from concept to consumer with confidence. Keysight keeps pace with the constantly evolving WLAN standards – such as 802.11ax and 802.11ad – all with a clear goal to continuously improve spectrum utilization, throughput, and user experience. Our complimentary videos, app...
AT&T Wireless began sifting through multibillion dollar bids, while Sprint offered up third-party billing … 13 years ago this week.
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the...
What is ZigBee?
ZigBee is a low-power wireless local area network (WLAN) specification that was designed to provide small amounts of data using very little power, with most connected devices running off of a battery. Because of this, the open standard has been linked with...
The need for a managed Wi-Fi solution
According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index, more than half of all monthly traffic from mobile-connected devices will be offloaded to the fixed network by means of Wi-Fi and other solutions by 2018. But implementing a building-wide Wi-Fi system...
Wi-Fi use continues to boom, and the technology has established itself as a crucial part of connectivity in the home, the workplace, and in public spaces. Wi-Fi standards continue to advance, with multiple projects in development to improve speeds and efficiency. In examining the...
Wi-Fi interoperability, enterprise sales and costs could slow small cell adoption
The market for the coverage and capacity benefits of a small cell deployment are there, but enterprise adoption is a key challenge facing mobile carriers, according to an opinion column by Peter Thornycroft of...
The international standard for Wi-Fi, LAN has been around more than two decades
WASHINGTON – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently marked the historic 25th anniversary of IEEE 802.11, the international standard that defines the world's Wi-Fi and local area networks.
In a statement released...
For enterprises in all industries, reliable wireless local area network connectivity is table stakes. It’s the backbone that delivers true mobility and, ultimately, worker productivity. But does your WLAN really drive productivity? That’s the million-dollar question. Initial WLAN investments were designed to accommodate growing mobility...
According to data from Cisco, global IP traffic will hit the zettabyte-per-year mark by 2016, and increase another 60% by 2018. What's more, the number of devices connected to networks is predicted to almost double the world's population in the same time frame. The...
Wireless networking vendors grew revenue, particularly from 802.11ac access points
In a new market analysis report, Infonetics Research tallied some $5 billion in wireless local area networking gear sold in 2014, with 802.11ac access points powering growth.
Infonetics reported approximately 1.2 million 802.11ac access...
Please join ABI Research and Corning for the 2015 Outlook for Indoor Wireless Technologies, which will include highlights of ABI Research’s study: “DAS Rises to the Small Cell Challenge.”
During this webinar, the panelists will discuss the benefits of fiber optics and converged DAS, Wireless...
Once a wireless phenomenon, Bluetooth is part of our everyday lives. Whether you utilize it to talk on the phone in your car or you've mistakenly thought someone was addressing you at the grocery store only to see that little device in their ear,...
