Wireless broadband access in Brazil will be expanded through the standard power unlicensed use of the 6 GHz as a result of a partnership between civil association for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Brazil (ABRINT) and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA), alongside its member companies Broadcom Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. (more…)
February 28, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Tokyo, Japan – Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has announced its initial development kit that includes support for the new Matter protocol. Renesas also announced that it will offer Matter support on all future Wi-Fi, Bluetooth low Energy (LE) and IEEE 802.15.4 (Thread) products, including products from recently acquired Dialog Semiconductor and Celeno Communications. (more…)
January 10, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Austin, United States – Wi-Fi 6E is delivering value to users, enterprises, and service providers, and the 6 GHz band is satisfying growing demand for higher-bandwidth services and more immersive experiences. Since its introduction, Wi-Fi 6E has gained traction as the de-facto industry standard in products, and with healthcare, education, and sports and entertainment environments. (more…)
November 18, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Vancouver, Canada – MetaBlox Network, a web3 project building a global OpenRoaming Wi-Fi network in a decentralised way, presented at the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA’s) Wireless Global Congress (WGC) in Amsterdam on October 19th, 2022. WGC is Europe’s Wi-Fi conference, where new developments in wireless networking technologies are presented and discussed by industry leaders. This year, a main focus of the event was accelerating Wi-Fi OpenRoaming adoption towards building one global Wi-Fi network. (more…)
November 3, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Nordic Semiconductor has been elevated to the Connectivity Standards Alliance (“the Alliance”) board of directors and added as a promoter member, the highest level of membership.
October 6, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Framingham, United States. 19 April, 2022 – Internet service providers (ISP)s will be able to deploy fully open-source Wi-Fi mesh networks, including standardised application programming interface (API)s enabling new services and features more quickly and with better interoperability than previously possible. The prpl Foundation and its service providers announced a major acceleration effort to its prplMesh open-source Wi-Fi mesh software stack, which will be made carrier grade by the end of this year. (more…)
April 19, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Dover, N.H., USA – A new partnership between QA Cafe and prpl Foundation will expand the performance and security for broadband Wi-Fi routers and gateways with enhanced automated testing. QA Cafe’s CDRouter test solution for broadband, enterprise edge and Wi-Fi gateways provides repeatable, automated testing of prplWare open-source CPE software that can be easily replicated for self-testing by developers. (more…)
December 7, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
18 November, 2021 –The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), an organisation with over 400 companies working together to simplify and harmonise the Internet of Things (IoT) through technology standards, and Infineon Technologies AG, a world specialist in semiconductor solutions, announced Infineon will be joining the Alliance’s board of directors as a promoter member. Infineon will be represented on CSA’s board of directors by Skip Ashton, a longtime champion of standards in IoT having served in leadership roles with the Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group, and who currently serves as distinguished engineer for the company. (more…)
November 19, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced that users of its new OpenRoaming service will be granted enterprise-level security. This is as a result of a partnership with infrastructure security experts, Kyrio. (more…)
December 3, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the worldwide industry body dedicated to improving Wi-Fi services and standards, has concluded five trial deployments of Wi-Fi 6 across diverse markets. The deployments show that Wi-Fi 6, with wider channels up to 160 MHz, and capacity up to 9.6 Gbps (compared to 3.5 Gbps in Wi-Fi 5), can enable nearly three times faster gigabit data rates. (more…)
November 19, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello