Trends and Opportunities
Wi-Fi is now considered an essential utility in the residential market, and with the growing number of smart home products and systems currently available, Wi-Fi usage is set to grow significantly.
Consumers expect and deserve high-performance and comprehensive Wi-Fi networks that enable their Wi-Fi devices to work at home with little to no setup required.
Business Benefits
The huge increase in video-heavy traffic puts new burdens on capabilities that are required of a residential Wi-Fi network. This creates a need for an upgrade of home Wi-Fi networks in order to pass on the increased bandwidth all the way to the various device.
This project helps operators to identify cost-effective features which are critical for ‘operator-managed residential Wi-Fi’ with technical specifications on deploying managed-Wi-Fi networks to meet customers’ growth expectations.
This benefits operators, equipment & chipset manufacturers, taking a leadership role to collaborate and work with industry standardization bodies to address the needs of industry players for deploying managed residential Wi-Fi networks.
Expected Deliverables
- Develop a technical specification for operators about how to implement and deploy a managed residential Wi-Fi technology & highlight the reference architecture and explaining the advantages of the chosen architecture;
- Provide insight on maintaining and managing the network architecture for residential Wi-Fi network that will cover both single wireless gateway and multi-AP in-home Wi-Fi solutions by working with Wi-Fi Alliance EasyMesh™ task groups and evaluating the availability of operator-grade EasyMesh solutions;
- Determine a baseline set of requirements and important features for operators and work with industry standardization bodies to accessing different solutions
