Wi-Fi News
Wi-Fi is one of the most ubiquitous wireless communications technologies in use today, primarily because it is easy to install, easy to use and inexpensive. Wi-Fi was originally designed as a way of extending internet connections wirelessly within an enterprise. However people soon began installing Wi-Fi Access Points at home and in public Hotspots to give convenient internet access to laptops, which ended up with Wi-Fi chips installed as standard. Today there are hundreds of millions of devices which use Wi-Fi including tablets, smart phones, TVs and set tops. There are millions of public hotspots and many hundreds of millions of home and enterprise access points. The Wi-name Fi is reserved for the IEEE 802.11 standards – so far A, B, G and N, with more on the way, and use 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum bands, with more being considered up to 60 GHz. Wi-Fi today is managed and policed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Wi-Fi reach varies with the power of the signal and the spectrum used, but will typically reach a few hundred feet and current generation devices will provide between 50 Mbps and a 100 Mbps shared between connected users.
Aruba buys Meridian for indoor venue smarts
Enterprise Wi-Fi vendor Aruba Networks is to acquire Meridian Apps to extend its reach in providing indoor wireless access in large venues - an increasingly hot market for operators and their supplier ...
- Aruba makes WLan mobile app-aware
- Wireless lifts Cisco's solid third quarter
- Cisco acquires small cell pioneer Ubiquisys
Ericsson expands Wi-Fi/cellular indoor platform
21 May, 2013
Adds cloud controllers, self-optimizing network software and integrated management platform for cellcos
UK could get commercial white spaces apps in 2014
29 April, 2013
Regulator Ofcom announces significant trials using the unlicensed spectrum, which should pave way to commercial offerings
AT&T grabs Boingo WiFi links
10 April, 2013
AT&T's deal with Boingo needs to be viewed as part of an accelerating landgrab for WiFi access
Google tests white spaces in South Africa
26 March, 2013
Trial uses gaps in TV spectrum to bring wireless broadband to schools, aiming to push regulatory change
Korean agency develops 10Gbps RF chip
14 March, 2013
World's fastest commercial class radio works in 60GHz band and could target mobile devices and cable replacement
FON to help DT blanket Germany with Wi-Fi
5 March, 2013
Crowdsourced hotspot company signs pact with Deutsche Telekom, covering its home market plus many eastern European units
FEATURED STORIES
- Vodafone suffers first ever annual revenue decline - 21 May, 2013
- Aruba buys Meridian for indoor venue smarts - 20 May, 2013
- Google promises to address fragmentation - 17 May, 2013
- Wireless lifts Cisco's solid third quarter - 16 May, 2013
