Wi-Fi

Hot job: Wireless LAN engineer

Given the realities of COVID-19, WLAN engineers are finding ways to extend enterprise security and Wi-Fi management capabilities to employees' home networks. They've also got a new role to play as enablers of future, contactless business operations.

Wireless upgrades from Cisco, Aruba, Juniper aim at helping businesses reopen safely

Contact tracing, temperature checking and overcrowding will be monitorable with new and enhanced features of wireless networks.

Wi-Fi to the rescue as governments react to COVID pandemic

Improvisation and partnerships are the name of the game, municipalities struggle to provide wireless internet access to those who don't have it but need it.

How Wi-Fi 6E boosts wireless spectrum five-fold

The Federal Communications Commission has approved a chunk of wireless spectrum called the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by Wi-Fi 6, and gear that supports it could be available by the end of the year.

Cisco goes after wireless IoT with Fluidmesh acquisition

Cisco wants Fluidmesh to bolster wireless connectivity applications in large-scale distributed sites

FCC wants to add a new swath of bandwidth to Wi-Fi 6

If approved, a Federal Communications Commission proposal would add the 6GHz band to the unlicensed spectrum used by Wi-Fi 6, making room to support more devices from a single Wi-Fi access point.

UK startup, Cisco team to test Wi-Fi for autonomous vehicles

Oxbotica’s software platform could help upload and download data from autonomous vehicles to help in managing autonomous fleets.

Cisco moves WiFi roaming technology to wireless broadband consortium

Cisco moves its OpenRoaming development, campaign to the Wireless Broadband Alliance

Wi-Fi 6 – a Q&A for CIOs and network managers

Enterprises roll out private 5G while standards, devices, coverage evolve

Early adopters are beginning to test private 5G deployments, inspired by the promise of superior performance and support for previously infeasible applications.