Roundup: CenturyLink’s Wi-Fi 6 with Intel, Origin’s mesh sensing, & Xfinity’s ‘WiFi Ready’
We’ve been away for a little while but in the meantime, the world of Wi-Fi keeps evolving. Here are the week’s most important Wi-Fi stories.
FCC votes to press forward with 5.9 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi
Coming next year to a router near you: High-performance, low-latency, 160 MHz channel Wi-Fi. The path to new 5.9 GHz Wi-Fi spectrum has now been cleared.
“Standardized, secure, auto-connect Wi-Fi IoT for everyone can be done,” says Aptilo
Lack of a scalable onboarding solution for IoT devices is a roadblock to Wi-Fi IoT mass market adoption. Aptilo says the answer is Passpoint.
Roundup: Charter goes for Wi-Fi ‘homespots’ & Verizon Fios launches Wi-Fi 6
Here are last week’s headline stories from around the world of Wi-Fi – as expected lots of Wi-Fi activity among cable and fibre ISPs.
HTNG defines standard for measuring hotel Wi-Fi quality
Wi-Fi is business critical for hotels. Now an industry organisation wants to develop a standard for measuring hotel Wi-Fi ‘quality of experience’.
London’s Stansted Airport moves to block pornography over Wi-Fi
Standsted Airport has had enough of complaints from parents and taps Friendly WiFi to help block pornography from their public Wi-Fi service.
FCC’s new 5.9 GHz proposal makes room for superfast Wi-Fi in the 5 GHz band
45 MHz of new band will allow Wi-Fi 6 to operate in a new 160 MHz channel – which means a big boost to Wi-Fi speeds as well as lower latency.
Roundup: Swisscom taps Broadcom for Wi-Fi 6 & ‘Internet is a human right’, study says
Swisscom, Broadcom, Wi-Fi 6, and the unsurpassable liberating power of Internet access hit the news headlines this week.
‘Publicroam’ seamless Wi-Fi expands to City of Amsterdam
The need for secure, public, and free Wi-Fi is driving the expansion of the Publicroam project into its second city: Amsterdam. Two hundred hotspots will be installed by end of year.
Who won the Wi-Fi NOW Awards 2019? Find out here!
Here comes the official announcement of our Wi-Fi NOW Award winners 2019. Huge congratulations to all our fantastic winners and runners-up – they have all achieved tremendous results this year.