Wi-F-based location based services (LBS) have never really achieved mass-market adoption despite plenty of compelling use cases. Aruba Networks has now taken the lead in reinventing Wi-Fi-based LBS and – if all goes according to plan – Aruba’s new architecture could foster a new era of innovative mass-market LBS services. Watch the interview above to get all the details in my conversation with HPE Fellow at Aruba Networks, Stuart Strickland – one of the chief architects of the new solution.
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