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OpenRoaming: Accelerating Neutral Host Deployments

The wireless industry is seeing a transition in deployments where new and existing spectrum allocations are permitting private enterprises to deploy their own wireless systems. Wi-Fi has been the traditional technology of choice for such private networks, delivering global economic value of over $4,800 billion by 2025, as estimated by Telecom Advisory Services. Whereas these

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2022-05-16T21:49:28+01:00May 31st, 2022|WBA Blog|

Announcing Release 3 of WBA OpenRoaming

Enhancements to the legal and commercial framework and automation enables scaling and reduces cost and management overheads on Wi-Fi Roaming In 2021 the Wireless Broadband Alliance announced the launch of Release 2 of the OpenRoaming standard, which enabled network and service providers, including Mobile Services Providers, Cable Operators and ISPs to offer an enhanced quality

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2022-05-24T17:46:31+01:00May 25th, 2022|WBA Blog|

Guest Blog: MWC Barcelona – A Behind the Scenes Look at the Numbers

This blog was written by Brett Shore - Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise Product Marketing at Cisco. You might have seen my last post and all the great things we (Cisco) had going on at MWC Barcelona. In case you didn’t, here’s the link. For those not familiar with MWC Barcelona, it’s the world’s largest wireless

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2022-04-01T15:23:52+01:00April 1st, 2022|WBA Blog|

WBA Industry Awards Case Study: Airties’ Managed Wi-Fi with OpenRoaming & EasyMesh Integrations

The WBA Industry Awards Case Study Series explores the shortlisted and winning entries of the Awards, which are presented each autumn during WBA’s Wireless Global Congress EMEA event. The Awards are a celebration of the excellence and innovation that we’ve seen in the Wi-Fi industry over the past year, and in 2021 the award for

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2022-03-09T19:18:10+00:00March 9th, 2022|WBA Blog|

Meet the WBA Experts – Dr. Kenneth J Kerpez

In-Home Wi-Fi Expert – Dr. Kenneth J Kerpez, Ph.D., Director of Standards, ASSIA, IEEE Fellow Dr. Kerpez received his Ph. D in EE communications from Cornell University in 1989. He worked at Bellcore and Telcordia, for 20 years, and now he has been working at ASSIA for 11 years. Dr. Kerpez

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2023-09-26T16:02:27+01:00March 7th, 2022|Meet the WBA Experts|

Mobile Data Offload: An Interview with IO by HFCL

HFCL is a trusted end-to-end telecom infrastructure provider. Over the past three decades, HFCL has delivered innovative, customized and competitive products and solutions in the high technology telecom sector, thereby enabling the customers to stay ahead of their peers. Consistently empowering innovation, HFCL endeavors to develop globally benchmarked next-generation products. At IO by HFCL, the aim is to innovate and deliver software

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2022-03-07T20:01:06+00:00March 4th, 2022|WBA Blog|

Broadcom Ships One Billion Wi-Fi 6 and 6E Chips

Connected by Broadcom, wireless devices define today’s broadband experiences and tomorrow’s internet vision By Vijay Nagarajan This time last year, the hunger consumers and enterprises had for faster, more efficient Wi-Fi had caught fire, driving us to ship more than 500 million Wi-Fi 6 chips shipped. Twelve months later, this number has doubled, bringing 1

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2022-03-03T14:56:47+00:00March 3rd, 2022|WBA Blog|

The Road Towards Standardization: Expert Insights on the Future of WiFi Sensing

This blog was written by WBA member Cognitive Systems Corp. Visit Cognitive's website to learn more about their Wi-Fi Sensing products and services.  WiFi has become inextricable from daily life. But it hasn’t always been like that. Standards and adoption in the WiFi space today took years of research, iteration, and certification. While some key

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2022-03-03T20:09:31+00:00March 3rd, 2022|WBA Blog|

2022: A Look at the Year Ahead for the Wireless Broadband Alliance

With nearly 18 billion Wi-Fi devices expected to be in use around the world this year, and more than 4 billion additional devices expect to ship before 2023[1], it’s very clear that the industry should be excited for the momentum that Wi-Fi has in 2022. With the emergence and large-scale adoption of technologies such as

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2022-03-01T16:20:11+00:00March 1st, 2022|WBA Blog|

WBA Member Interview: Agreefy

Agreefy is a leading provider of location-aware software, supporting organizations across the world in leveraging location intelligence to build smarter venues. Agreefy tools and analytics are at the core of modern life, from shopping, dining out and travel to healthcare, education and events. After joining the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) in late 2021, we were

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2022-02-15T20:30:00+00:00February 15th, 2022|WBA Blog|
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