Ultra-wideband is already capable of remarkably precise indoor positioning. The bigger challenge is turning that precision into an industrial-scale system that is robust, scalable, and economical to deploy. Ciholas President & Founder Mike Ciholas explains how the company’s CUWB platform approaches that problem.

Europe’s debate over the future of the upper 6 GHz band is no longer simply a question of which technology should receive access to the spectrum. According to Wi-Fi Alliance VP of Regulatory Affairs Alex Roytblat, Europe is already incurring a cost by leaving the question unresolved.

WiFi NOW has identified more than 85 commercial ISP Wi-Fi 7 deployments or offerings across Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa – and the number continues to grow.

IEEE 802.15.4ab is the next major evolution of Ultra-Wideband technology. The emerging standard expands UWB beyond the precise ranging applications for which it is best known today, introducing substantially more feature-rich radio technology designed for a much wider selection of use cases.

Reliable indoor mobile coverage is becoming more important while also becoming more difficult and expensive to deliver. In this detailed post-webinar report, we examine why Wi-Fi is emerging as an essential complement to cellular infrastructure and with HeliumOS.

Extreme Networks has spent more than a decade engineering networks for this unusually difficult environment. Now the company is adding a new option to its stadium design toolkit: Extreme Multi-Beam Wireless, developed with antenna specialist MatSing. The system combines Extreme Wi-Fi 7 access points with MatSing’s patented technology.

The real significance of Wi-Fi 8 will ultimately depend on how these technologies are implemented and deployed in real networks. Wi-Fi 8 is unlikely to arrive as a single capability that suddenly transforms every network.

When a radio link is weak, Wi-Fi 8 addresses this part of the reliability problem with Enhanced Long Range (ELR) – a dedicated transmission mode designed to make communication more robust when signal levels are low.

IEEE 802.11bn introduces a new seamless-roaming framework designed to make transitions between access points more reliable. The objective is to prepare the transition and preserve more of the connection state and data flow while the device moves.

Co-BF allows cooperating access points to coordinate simultaneous transmissions so that each AP can serve its intended client while reducing the interference it causes to clients being served by another AP. The objective is to shape transmissions with awareness of the wider multi-AP network.

Wi-Fi 8 introduces Non-Primary Channel Access (NPCA) to give compatible devices another way to access the medium in such circumstances. Wi-Fi 8 devices may be able to switch to another designated primary channel within the AP’s operating bandwidth and contend for access there.

DSO allows the AP to make subband allocation decisions dynamically. This matters because Wi-Fi traffic is inherently variable. A laptop may suddenly begin downloading a large file while another device has almost nothing to send. Greater flexibility in frequency allocation gives the AP another way to respond to changing traffic conditions.

As Wi-Fi deployments become denser, the amount of time spent waiting can increasingly limit network performance. IEEE 802.11bn – the technical basis for Wi-Fi 8 – addresses this problem with Coordinated Spatial Reuse (Co-SR): A Multi-AP mechanism designed to allow two access points to transmit at the same time.

Collecting network data is only the beginning. The real value of AI Operations emerges when platforms can identify problems, determine their likely causes, recommend corrective action, and – in carefully controlled cases – resolve issues automatically.

AI can only improve enterprise Wi‑Fi operations if it understands what is happening across the network. That requires far more than collecting access point statistics. Effective AI Ops depends on a continuous, contextualised stream of data spanning infrastructure, clients, applications, and the wider wired network.

Morse Micro says Wi‑Fi HaLow occupies an unusually useful middle ground – delivering more bandwidth than conventional low-power IoT technologies, much greater reach than standard Wi‑Fi, and low enough power consumption for battery- and solar-powered devices.