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OpenRoaming Hospitality
In recent years, Wi-Fi availability is rated as one of the top 3 factors why a guest will choose to stay at a hotel. For hotels around the world, providing a great guest Wi-Fi experience is not optional, its essential.
To that end, what defines a great guest Wi-Fi experience, and are you delivering it? Your guests may have great connectivity in their bedroom or in the hotel bar, but what about in the conference center with many people trying to simultaneously connect? Are your staff required to be connected to Wi-Fi in order to better serve your customers?
OpenRoaming provides seamless, secure access throughout the property, to other properties and other places your guests visit throughout their journey and OpenRoaming can enhance your loyalty proposition.
OpenRoaming Ground Transportation
What happens when our day is paused? The majority of people on different modes of public transportation – such as a train or bus – will immediately reach for their smartphone or tablet – whether it’s to check messages, to do some work or just to enjoy some entertainment while having some downtime.
However, problems can arise the moment you attempt to connect to the transportation’s Wi-Fi network. How do I connect? Do I need a username or password? Will the network recognize me from my previous connections? Should I worry about security risks?
This is where WBA OpenRoaming comes in. It is designed to drastically simplify how passengers and staff connect to the network, with no lengthy and repetitive sign-up or connection process required. From carriage to platform to subway and beyond, connecting to the network happens simply and securely without any further actions needed from the user.
Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN® trials
Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® Trials – An Overview of Use Cases Across Regions Combining Two Powerful Technologies, the latest joint white paper from the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and LoRa Alliance, illustrates that selecting an intelligent multi-radio strategy is becoming increasingly important to succeed in a connected world. This paper provides details on practical trials and proof of concept deployments (POCs), representing a variety of use cases implemented across different geographies and verticals. It concludes that hybrid Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN connectivity increases market opportunities and provides a strong ROI while offering enhanced network solutions.
This paper builds on the two organizations’ earlier work, “Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN Deployment Synergies: Expanding Addressable Use Cases for the Internet of Things,” which compared the two technologies theoretically and sought to demonstrate how they could be utilized to effectively support a vast array of use cases.
Wi-Fi 6 Trial Case Study – Education – Shenzhen university town
In this trial, Huawei worked with the Shenzhen University Town in China and deployed Wi-Fi 6 technology in the campus areas.
Wi-Fi 6 Trial Report – Transportation hubs
In the U.S, Boingo, Cisco and Samsung worked together to launch Wi-Fi 6 at John Wayne Airport (SNA) to power a next generation connectivity experience and support airport operations. Following the SNA deployment, Boingo has moved its Wi-Fi 6 technologies from trials to commercial operations and most recently, Boingo has announced an airport-wide commercial deployment of Wi-Fi 6 at São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport (GRU), delivering incredibly fast speeds and low latency to passengers.
Wi-Fi 6 Trial Report – Single-family and multi-dwelling units
CableLabs®, Intel and Kyrio® deployed Wi-Fi 6 in a mixed-use residential area to increase the user experience in a Wi-Fi loaded In this trial, Wi-Fi 6 delivered a significant increase in throughput, enabling the delivery of multiple 4K video with higher quality.
Wi-Fi 6 Trial Report – Industrial Manufacturing
Mettis Aerospace worked with Broadcom, Cisco, iBwave and Intel to deploy Wi-Fi 6 in a dense industrial environment with heavy metal, high temperatures and moving machinery, where previous generations of Wi-Fi did not perform well. The Wi-Fi 6 trial demonstrated much improved reliability, coverage, throughput and lower latency for supporting mission critical applications.
Wi-Fi 6 Trial Report – High-density malls
SK Telecom deployed Wi-Fi 6 to improve connectivity for consumers, increase quality of experience (QoE) for densely populated areas and provide high throughput for immersive media services. Wi-Fi 6 reduced latency by 80 percent, reduced throughput fluctuation, and improved service reliability to customers anywhere, anytime, throughout the mall.
Wi-Fi 6 Trial Report – Education in rural areas
C-DOT and Intel deployed Wi-Fi 6 in a rural school trial in India to enhance new learning technologies, and improve signal coverage and streaming performance. Wi-Fi 6 improved throughput by more than 50 percent throughout the network.
Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
WBA’s Wi-Fi 6 program aims to drive the adoption of Wi-Fi 6 and has previously released the Wi-Fi 6 Deployment Guidelines white paper, which outlines different vertical use cases and and provides guidance on best practices for deployments. WBA provides a platform for end-to-end Wi-Fi 6 trials based on a comprehensive test plan to demonstrate key Wi-Fi 6 capabilities in end-to-end real life networks and showcase the readiness for carrier Wi-Fi deployments across different geographies and various key verticals.
