Wi-Fi

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, …

Cisco exec: ‘The only thing faster than the Wi-Fi 6 network is the process of connecting to it’ The world’s first at-airport Wi-Fi 6 network using Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) OpenRoaming has been established at Brazil’s São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport …

The GSMA believes that if governments fail to open larger amounts of spectrum in the 6 GHz range (5925-7125 MHz), the global future of 5G is at risk. In a recent statement issued with Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia and ZTE, the …

“It will take time, but this provision of untethered enterprise value will eclipse the standard consumer telecoms market.” So says Mark Bole, chief executive at core networking provider Quortus. It sounds almost fanciful, that such a global infrastructure might ever …

Verizon will provide 5G and Wi-Fi solutions to New York UBS Arena, Seattle Climate Pledge Arena and Coachella Valley Arena Oak View Group (OVG) has selected Verizon as a connectivity provider, making the carrier the exclusive 5G and wireless partner …

WBA CEO: ‘As operators and enterprises adopt OpenWiFi, they will need OpenRoaming’ The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has adopted the OpenRoaming standard for its OpenWiFi initiative, which launches officially on May 12. OpenRoaming, developed by Cisco and now controlled by WBA, …

Rockefeller Center spans 22 acres, encompassing three city blocks Boingo Wireless has been selected to design, install and manage a new Wi-Fi 6 network at New York City’s Rockefeller Center. The center, a tourist draw with a seasonal ice-skating rink …

Russian coal mining company Raspadskaya has deployed a Wi-Fi based real-time IoT tracking solution from Orange Business Services to help sort different grades and types of coal at a coal preparation factory in the Kemerovo region of Russia. Raspadskaya, partly …

Passpoint Wi-Fi removes the need for users to find and authenticate each time they want to get online Six London street markets — Church Street, Berwick Street, Strutton Ground, Tachbrook Street, Maida Hill and Rupert Street markets — will soon have …

Wi-Fi 7 will support 320-megahertz transmissions and 4096-QAM, requiring more advanced test equipment While consumers and enterprise decision makers continue to weigh the benefits of updating to Wi-Fi 6, the wireless industry is already preparing for the arrival of Wi-Fi …

    CommScope announced new additions to its Wi-Fi 6 access point (AP) portfolio?the indoor Ruckus H550 and outdoor Ruckus T350?and new enterprise and service-provider features in its Ruckus SmartZoneOS. The company said that because modern device environments include Wi-Fi-enabled …

It is just another networking technology, after all; Appledore Research tells of the trouble with the telco sector’s ‘god complex’. Note, this is an excerpt from an interview that appears in a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on …

The new version of the Zeetta Networks platform, which provides a dashboard for managing multiple private enterprise networks, as a “single pane of glass”, has already been tested as well in “large scale” smart city initiatives in the UK, including …

Data shows that mmWave 5G is nearly thirty times faster than public Wi-Fi According to recent Opensignal data, 5G mmWave and public Wi-Fi are nearly matched in availability. However, smartphone users experienced download speeds 30 times faster when connected to …

WBA CEO: “Other countries pay close attention to Saudi Arabia’s example” Saudi Arabia is the first country in the Middle East, Europe or Africa to designate all 1200 megahertz of the 6 GHz band for unlicensed use, paving the way …

Danielle Piñeres is vice president & associate general counsel at NCTA where she focuses on wireless spectrum policy issues. On the latest episode of Well, technically… she discusses how the recently opened 5.9 and 6 GHz bands will impact the …

Qatar’s Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) published a public consultation on its website related to the Wireless Local Area Network (Wi-Fi 6) and CRA’s proposed policy for assigning the full frequency band (5925 – 7125 MHz) to this network. The regulator …

As promised last week, in an op-ed write-around of the same conversation, here is the full interview with Phil Skipper, group head of IoT business development at Vodafone, on the subject of industrial 5G performance KPIs and management SLAs – …

US-based Federated Wireless has watched at close quarters as US enterprises have piled into the CBRS band to deploy private LTE and 5G networks. Here, Deepak Das, in the company’s CTO office, describes the unfolding landscape, as enterprises put cellular …

U.S. distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless has been selected by Foulger-Pratt, a real estate investment and development firm, to launch managed Wi-Fi services at three luxury multifamily properties in Washington, D.C. Under the terms of the …

Extreme Networks provided the site with 19 mobile Wi-Fi access points Extreme Networks was selected by Novant Health to provide its cloud-managed Wi-Fi solutions to support a mass COVID-19 vaccination event at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C. Earlier this week, …

Some quick (perhaps not fully-formed) thoughts on the supply and management of private 5G networks for industry. These come from a series of conversations for an upcoming report (and webinar) about the kind of service level agreements (SLAs) that might …

U.S. distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless says it has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Digital Colony Management in a deal worth $854 million. The transaction will take Boingo from being a public company …

The 2021 Major League Baseball (MLB) season kicks off in just a few days and this time around, 16 ballparks — beginning with Boston’s Fenway Park — will be outfitted with Extreme Networks’ Wi-Fi 6 solutions and analytics that will …

On this week’s episode, Asha Keddy, corporate VP at Intel, takes a closer look at the friendly, but fierce, competition between 5G and Wi-Fi both in the enterprise and at home, as well as what is in store for the …