News tagged: Tiago Rodrigues

19 January, 2022

Wi-Fi 6E trial in Turkey hailed a success by Turk Telekom

London, UK. 19 January, 2022 – Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) member, Turk Telekom, announced the successful completion of Wi-Fi 6E trials designed to demonstrate how the technology can be used to enhance speed and capacity in a variety of different end-user scenarios. Wi-Fi is vital to the success of Turk Telekom, who has the Wi-Fi footprint in the region spanning residential, enterprise and public space applications.

06 December, 2021

WBA field trial demonstrates how Wi-Fi 6E and 6 GHz maximise speed, coverage and capacity

London, UK – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) announced results from a new field trial that highlight the benefits of using Low Power Indoor Wi-Fi 6E for a wide variety of demanding residential applications, including video collaboration for telecommuting, multiplayer gaming, augmented and virtual reality, streaming video and more.

13 October, 2021

Extreme Networks and Wireless Broadband Alliance deliver open roaming connectivity

Extreme Networks Inc., a cloud-driven networking company, announced it has successfully implemented support of Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) OpenRoaming at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (IPV) in Portugal.

13 October, 2021

83% will have deployed Wi-Fi 6/6E by 2022

83% of service providers and equipment manufacturers and enterprises worldwide will have deployed Wi-Fi 6/6E or plan to do so before the end of 2022. That is one key finding from the latest cross-industry survey by the Wireless Broadband Alliance, the global industry body dedicated to improving Wi-Fi standards and services.

24 June, 2021

WBA openRoaming primed for residential rollout after Wi-Fi 6 trial with Airties over in-home Wi-Fi

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) reported the completion of a successful proof-of-concept trial to automatically onboard Wi-Fi client devices to a residential Wi-Fi 6 network, paving the way for the rollout of WBA OpenRoaming across in-home Wi-Fi and wide-area wireless broadband networks.

05 May, 2021

New OpenWiFi initiative from TIP adopts OpenRoaming standard

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced that Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an initiative focused on accelerating the pace of innovation in the telecom industry worldwide, has adopted the WBA OpenRoaming standard for its soon-to-be-launched OpenWiFi initiative. (more…)

27 January, 2021

Blueprint for convergence issued by Wireless Broadband Alliance showing critical role of Wi-Fi 6 in 5G’s future

Convergence between Wi-Fi and 5G access technologies is critical for enabling new breed of services, applications and experiences such as Industry 4.0, augmented & virtual reality (AR/VR), connected cities and Edge computing. This is according to the latest report from the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), developed with input from mobile carriers, Wi-Fi providers, telecom manufacturers, and its own 5G Working Group. (more…)

19 November, 2020

Wi-Fi 6 is ready for carrier network deployment, says WBA after successful completion of trials

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…)

01 October, 2019

Wireless Broadband Alliance appoints Tiago Rodrigues as CEO

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) reports that Tiago Rodrigues has taken the helm as CEO, following a unanimous vote at the wireless industry group. (more…)

06 November, 2018

WBA annual industry report finds 84% of industry is as or more confident in Wi-Fi investment

The growth in Wi-Fi continues unabated, with increasing volumes of Wi-Fi devices and traffic, an adoption breakthrough in Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) Passpoint, and increasing confidence around the commercial deployment and specification of next generation technology Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax).

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