Guest Blog: Is 5G a Threat to Wi-Fi?
Wi-Fi market will boom to USD 15.60 Billion by 2022- A report conducted by MarketsandMarkets™. The global 5G market is forecasted to have a value of USD 620.72 Billion by 2030- Statista. Wi-Fi 6 has begun the new era of high-performing connectivity and security, and with lower cost to deploy, maintain, and scale—indeed, it will
Guest Blog: Wi-Fi Empowering Industry Revolution
This article was authored by Ashish Jain, Head Presales at HFCL Limited. Today, technology heeds our commands at the touch of a button, and the credit ball falls into the court of futuristic Wi-Fi connectivity. It is all due to Wi-Fi's advanced technologies, which have enabled new capabilities and built a more CONNECTED world. Wi-Fi
An interview with WBA member BlueportiQ
After recently welcoming BlueportiQ as a new member of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), we were honoured to sit down with Urbino Lobo, VP Sales EMEA, to discuss a number of different topics. Can you please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about BlueportiQ? My name is Urbino Lobo, and I am the
OpenRoaming Release 2: Enhanced Quality of Service with Integrated Settlement
This blog was written by the co-chairs of the WBA OpenRoaming™ Task Group. It’s now 12 months since WBA officially launched their OpenRoaming federation for global, seamless and secure Wi-Fi roaming. This first release of the OpenRoaming standard provided the framework for redefining Wi-Fi interoperability and roaming; a single federation that can simultaneously be used to address settlement-free and settled-access (paid-for)
The dawn of ‘Zetta’ and the path to ‘Yotta’ – Innovation Forum by WBA CTO Group
The way in which consumers interact with the physical world has changed dramatically in recent years, and with incoming disruptive new use cases such as AR/VR, immersive streaming experiences, devices of the future and things yet to be designed, wireless technologies are reaching an historical peak in terms of relevance and data demand. In 2020,
Bringing Wi-Fi Security to the Next Level
WBA PKI Framework Enables RadSec Connection Security In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic nearly eliminated travel. Today, as restrictions are lifted, we’re seeing travel levels increase—particularly locally. Soon, we should all be able to return to the world of far-reaching travel. Whether for trips across town or journeys around the globe, Wi-Fi accessibility is a critical
Interview with Daniel Zahavi – Co-Founder and CEO, LEVL Technologies
WBA member LEVL has today launched its LEVL-IQ™ device intelligence and identity platform, which resolves issues caused by MAC address randomization which poses challenges to the hospitality network industry, while offering intelligence and insights on all devices in the network. We had the privilege of sitting down with Daniel Zahavi, LEVL's Co-Founder and CEO, to
Guest Blog: The Reality of Wi-Fi 6 (AX)
Wi-Fi 6, 5G, analytics & the dangerous mindset of “future-proofing” Now that Wi-Fi 6, which in geek speak used to be 802.11AX, has been around for a few years, what have we learned? Well, we know its throughput speeds are faster, it facilitates superior device performance in dense environments and has enabled the promise
Driving Economic Growth and Social Inclusion with Next Generation Wi-Fi in the 5G Era: The Mission of the Wireless Broadband Alliance
by Tiago Rodrigues, WBA CEO Since being founded in 2003, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has been working to improve the Wi-Fi user experience, with an overall of vision of creating a seamless and interoperable experience for Wi-Fi and other unlicensed technologies within the global wireless ecosystem. Our mission is to drive better Wi-Fi Services