Analyst Angle: Learning from Wi-Fi, working toward coexistence with LTE in unlicensed 5 GHz

A conversation with Edgar Figueroa, President and CEO, Wi-Fi Alliance
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Wi-Fi Alliance has an unmatched experience in managing the coexistence of multiple networks in unlicensed spectrum. Certification ensures that multiple Wi-Fi devices meet standards requirements and behave nicely toward each other. Wi-Fi Alliance is eager to use this experience to ensure a successful coexistence of Wi-Fi and LTE in the 5 GHz band, through a consensus-based process that includes all the stakeholders – service providers, users and enterprises.
“We have been tremendously successful operating in unlicensed. I would say we are the model of success in unlicensed. The conversation is shifting quickly toward how to ensure that whatever happens in 5 GHz does not unduly impair the current tenants in that band,” Edgar Figueroa, Wi-Fi Alliance’s CEO told us.
In this interview, Edgar outlines a vision for the coexistence of Wi-Fi, LTE in unlicensed 5 GHz and other technologies to ensure maximum utilization of highly valued unlicensed spectrum. “This is a pivotal moment. It requires different industries that have operated very independently to get intensely close to each other and to work very well together, because our interests are joined. To the extent that we can evolve toward successful solutions in sharing 5 GHz we will have a bright future together.”
Read the full interview or watch the video to find out more about Wi-Fi Alliance’s vision for the coexistence of Wi-Fi and LTE in the unlicensed 5 GHz band.
This conversation will be included in the Senza Fili report “LTE Unlicensed and Wi-Fi: Moving Beyond Coexistence” that will be published later this month. If you would like to receive a complimentary copy of the report, please click here and you will be among the first to receive the report when it is finalized.