LONDON, November 15, 2017— The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the winners of the sixth annual WBA Industry Awards at its Wireless Global Congress event in New York. Judged by a panel of independent industry experts, analysts and journalists, each year the awards honor the most exceptional – and best practice - networks, smart
Report sharpens best practice for Connected City technology use cases to tackle urban challenges Singapore, 15 November 2017 – The Connected City Advisory Board (CCAB), a committee developed by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), has published an update to its Connected City Blueprint. The latest version of the report focuses on the different issues and
LONDON, Nov. 8, 2017 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced a significant milestone for Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) technology. The NGH Wi-Fi, which is based on Passpoint technology and WBA Roaming, was successfully deployed at the GSMA’s inaugural Mobile World Congress (MWC) Americas event in San Francisco, which welcomed more than 21,000 people
Florin Baboescu Scientist, Senior Principal Broadcom “The new 5G System (5GS) gives an opportunity for operators to extend their services.” Florin Baboescu , Scientist, Senior Principal Broadcom As the Co-Chair of the 5G project group, I believe the new 5G System (5GS) gives an opportunity for operators to
Mark Grayson Distinguished Engineer, CTO Team, Cisco “5G is following Wi-Fi in its evolution” Mark Grayson, Distinguished Engineer, CTO Team, Cisco Nowadays, It is obviously much of the attention has been around spectrum specifics, but 5G’s embracing of an EAP based authentication framework and its broadening of identity concepts
The shortlist for the sixth annual WBA Industry Awards has been announced and can be viewed in full here. Bringing together leading players in the Wi-Fi Industry, it includes some of the most exceptional – and best practice – networks, smart cities and remote wireless deployments from operators and technology vendors across the globe.
The Wireless Broadband Alliance is pleased to announce the launch of the Carrier Wireless Services Certification (CWSC) program aimed at Network Operators and equipment/infrastructure Vendors . The program will simulate end customer usability in a real network environment to ensure that devices are ready for worldwide commercial deployments, reducing customer support time for carriers and
A research work by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens from the research group of KU Leuven university has identified and published a new security issue associated with Wi-Fi WPA2 encryption mechanisms, for this the researchers developed a specific method to perform a series of tests, described on the following website. Major industry players have already
