I n the time since Apple’s revelation that iOS 8 would support a form of Wi-Fi calling, the industry has seen a barrage of announcements, even TV commercials, around Wi-Fi calling. Come to find out that many of them are...
In a wireless world that’s so dependent on reliable connectivity, there’s something small business owners will tell you: Wi-Fi for small businesses really stinks. The small business sector is one of today’s most underserved and overlooked markets, and the opportunity...
Hotspot 2.0 Release 2 is here – expanding and improving on the considerable innovations introduced with HS2.0 Release 1. At Ruckus, we’ve always been huge fans of Hotspot 2.0 and have taken an active part in its testing and development....
I talk to thousands of people every year that are wanting. They want bigger homes, more relations, bosses without attitudes, faster cars, and more powerful firearms. While a seemingly random list, one “want” at the top of almost everyone’s list...
We don't. But we DO believe in insanity, which seems to be running rampant these days in the networked world. After reading Gartner's new 2014 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, we are feeling a bit...
Earlier this month at the Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) it was uncovered by Frederic Jacobs that with the upcoming Apple iOS8 operating system, Apple devices will be able to, as a privacy mechanism, hide or mask their MAC address...
"Good Luck!" That’s what I was told when an industry friend heard that we were providing the Wi-Fi service for this year's Interop Las Vegas. To be fair, the bar for Wi-Fi at Interop was quite low. Historically the Wi-Fi...
With every new Wi-Fi technology or standard, industry fortune tellers are quick to cast adaptive antenna arrays into an early grave. This gets a little (actually, a lot) technical, but it's required. Distinctly different from chip-based beamforming, for which every...
"Making Wi-Fi as easy as cellular” is a popular maxim when engineers, marketeers, and journalists talk about Hotspot 2.0. And it’s not hard to understand why. The cellular connectivity experience is well understood in virtually every culture, while, except to...
Stressing about the new 802.11ac standard seems to be the industry’s new pastime. Now that Wave-1 of 802.11ac is here with vendors promising 1.3 Gbps in 5 GHz, 1.75 Gbps aggregate per AP, and world peace, suddenly the industry has...
Nothing is hotter right now in the networked world than Hotspot 2.0. While most of the attention on Hotspot 2.0 has centered on the technology and how it works, the really compelling “feature”(that has received nearly no attention) is the...
How would you like to be the CEO of a company like Apple or Dropbox? Money, fame and awesomeness surround you. But as cool as that sounds, it doesn’t prevent you from living through a failed live product demo in...