BROWSING: Wi-Fi

Dream Las Vegas will house 531 hotel rooms, 12,000 square feet of meeting and event space and a 20,000-square-foot casino Boingo Wireless has been selected to design, build and manage extensive DAS and Wi-Fi 6E networks at Dream Las Vegas, a new hotel and casino...

Value-add applications supported by the Nokia WiFi Beacon 10 include cybersecurity and gaming optimization For many communications service providers (CSPs), offering Wi-Fi connectivity is table stakes. But, in an era of hybrid working, latency-sensitive applications, and rapidly evolving technologies, carriers have a two-fold challenge: keep...

Cisco and NTT announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G in the automotive, logistics, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. They said they will “co-innovate”, and combine to bring to market both “technology and managed services”. Specifically, they said they would combine NTT’s managed...

AFC is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation BARCELONA, SPAIN - Cisco has announced that it will integrate Federated Wireless’ Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) solution into its wireless 6 GHz-capable access points. The pair said the collaboration will help bring Wi-Fi 6E capabilities...

Verizon installed more than 450,000 feet of cabling for the Wi-Fi network Verizon is providing new Wi-Fi connectivity to fans and staff at Florida’s Daytona International Speedway in preparation for the 65th running of the DAYTONA 500. Because NASCAR’s U.S. speedways are some of the largest...

In April 2020, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made 1,200 megahertz of spectrum available in the 6 GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use. The seventh generation of Wi-Fi technology is designed from the ground up with the 6 GHz band in mind, and promises higher spectrum and...

For many enterprises, Wi-Fi is the go-to infrastructure for connectivity. It is a vital and essential component for supporting the full gamut of business services and applications that employees and visitors rely upon. While Wi-Fi works perfectly well in office settings, or for transporting...

TIP OpenWiFi is an open source-based Wi-Fi architecture that leverages open-source development and automated testing Indian managed service provider Spectra has expanded its deployment of Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi solutions to cover more of its Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) and enterprise customers. TIP OpenWiFi is an...

Automated Frequency Coordination, or AFC, is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation Telecoms software and hardware provider Airspan has selected Federated Wireless as its Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) service provider for its latest Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) product line. The new solutions...

To serve the array of high-performance devices populating today’s hyper-connected homes and take full advantage of the Gigabit and multi-Gigabit broadband connections increasingly available to households across the globe, a new class of Wi-Fi home networks has arrived. This webinar will discuss how the...

As promised and previewed last week, here is a full transcript of the interview with Marc Overton, managing director of BT’s industrial go-to-market business Division X – from a conversation a couple of months back, at the UK operator’s annual Robotics Festival at its...

As pandemic-related restrictions have ended in most parts of the world, customer-facing businesses have an excellent opportunity to gain new significance in the buying journey by modernizing Wi-Fi use to meet customers’ expectations. In this article, we look at how WBA OpenRoaming is redefining...

When Wi-Fi 6 Extended, which refers to the ability to operate Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band, was announced, the industry rejoiced for it was the first time in 20 years that Wi-Fi technology was allocated additional spectrum. Users are still in the process...

Wi-Fi 7 has been designed from the ground up for operation in the 6 GHz band Wi-Fi 7, which is designed from the ground up for operation in the 6 GHz band, is also known as Extremely High Throughput, thanks to its support of up...

The smart logistics operation at China-based retail giant JD.com “makes Amazon look primitive”, reckons regional English-language title The Asia Times. Certainly, its warehousing and fulfilment business, JD Logistics (JDL), caught the attention of the industrial tech media this summer when it revealed a fleet...

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...

Want to know how to scale private 5G across manufacturing plants and manufacturing applications? Well, European aviation and aerospace manufacturer Airbus knows how. Of course, if you have followed the Airbus story in these pages, or caught its feature presentations and panel discussions at...

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 brings a host of new flexibility features; they all have to be tested A previous article discussed the challenges associated with breaking the 6 GHz barrier and with testing higher modulation in Wi-Fi 7 devices. In part 2, we will take a look...

Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...

When Wi-Fi 6 Extended, which refers to the ability to operate Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band, was announced, the industry rejoiced for it was the first time in 20 years that Wi-Fi technology was allocated additional spectrum. Users are still in the process...

'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...

There’s been talk in some corners that Wi-Fi 6E is a “niche” generation of Wi-Fi. Nothing could be further from the truth. Wi-Fi 6E is the most significant development in the history of Wi-Fi and offers incredible value to enterprises. That said, I understand why...