Autonomous Mobile Robots, Automatic Guided Vehicles, Augmented & Virtual Reality Use Cases Detailed with Industrial Internet of Things Deployment Guidelines London, UK, June 29th 2022: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today published “Wi-Fi 6/6E for Industrial IoT: Enabling Wi-Fi Determinism in an IoT World”. This paper explores how Wi-Fi’s latest features are ideal for meeting the unique, demanding requirements for a wide variety of existing and emerging IIoT applications. This includes manufacturing/Industry 4.0 and logistics, involving autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated ground vehicles (AGVs), predictive maintenance and augmented/virtual/mixed reality (AR/VR/MR)….
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Staff, Patients & Visitors Get Automatic, Secure Access to Wi-Fi 6 and WBA OpenRoaming™ Across Multiple Hospital Campuses
24 Adventist Health hospital campuses will gain access to fast, seamless and secure Wi-Fi without needing to enter login credentials following successful trial London – June 30th, 2021: Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) member, Cisco has completed the rollout of the WBA OpenRoaming service across four of Adventist Health’s hospital campuses in the United States. The success of the rollout, which enabled staff and visitors at the hospitals to connect seamlessly and securely to the Wi-Fi network without needing to enter login credentials, means OpenRoaming with Cisco’s DNA Spaces will now…
Read MoreWireless Broadband Alliance Releases Blueprint for 5G and Wi-Fi 6 Convergence
New industry guidelines highlight critical role Wi-Fi will play in the long-term success of 5G Outlines convergence opportunities for optimizing business innovation and customer experience London, 26 January 2021 – Convergence between Wi-Fi and 5G access technologies is critical for enabling new breed of services, applications and experiences such as Industry 4.0, AR/VR, Connected Cities and Edge Computing. That 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. The report, expanding…
Read MoreWireless Broadband Alliance members successfully complete first phase Wi-Fi 6 industry 4.0 trials with Mettis Aerospace
Proven reliability of high bandwidth and low latency IoT communications, next generation Wi-Fi delivers Mixed Reality and 4K video streaming across factory network London – December 5th, 2019: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the body leading development of next generation Wi-Fi services, today confirmed the successful completion of its phase one trial of Wi-Fi 6 infrastructure and services at the Mettis Aerospace factory in the UK. The trial was the first of its kind in the world and an important part of the WBA’s Wi-Fi 6 test and development program….
Read MoreWBA & NGMN examine options for convergence, management of Wi-Fi 6 & 5G
White Paper Assesses Current Implementations, Identifies Solutions To Address Gaps, Explores Validation For Use Cases London, UK, 3 September 2019: Mobile operators today received further verification that Wi-Fi will play a critical role to the success of 5G, as illustrated in a new white paper developed by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance. Developed with input from mobile carriers, telecom equipment manufacturers and Wi-Fi advocates, the WBA & NGMN Joint Task Force: RAN Convergence White Paper explores the importance of existing and future…
Read MoreWBA Releases Wi-Fi 6 Guidelines to Assist Operators, Enterprises, Cities with Deployments
Scenarios Addresses Planning, Design, Meeting SLAs As Trials Of Next-Gen Wi-Fi Continue Ramping Up London – July 10, 2019: In preparation for the impending release of next-generation Wi-Fi technology later this year, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today released a new white paper that provides deployment guidelines for a number of possible scenarios utilizing Wi-Fi 6 technology. With today’s white paper release, operators, enterprises and cities now have the tools needed to embrace and deploy Wi-Fi 6 when it’s released later this year. Globally, dependence upon Wi-Fi continues to grow…
Read MoreWireless Broadband Alliance and Mettis Aerospace Announce World’s First Wi-Fi 6 Industrial Enterprise & IoT Trial
Wi-Fi 6 trial to demonstrate the delivery of transformation for Industry 4.0 London, 17 April 2019: The Wireless Broadband Alliance, a leading organization in support of the adoption of next generation Wi-Fi services across the Wi-Fi ecosystem, has announced the world’s first Wi-Fi 6 Industrial Enterprise and IoT trial, as part of its ongoing Wi-Fi 6 program. Mettis Aerospace, a designer and manufacturer of precision-forged, machined and sub-assembled components, primarily for the aerospace and defense industry, will work with WBA members to test several use cases* on a Wi-Fi 6…
Read MoreWi-Fi 6 and Next Generation Hotspot boost industry confidence in Wi-Fi
WBA Annual Industry Report finds 84% of industry is as or more confident in Wi-Fi investment London 31 October 2018 – 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). The findings from the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) Annual Industry Report for 2019 demonstrate that the evolution of Wi-Fi is accelerating and spanning new areas, from integration with 5G, to…
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