VoWi-Fi

Cisco Accelerates Cloud Native vDRA and Scoops up Two North America Wins

People today use their mobile devices anytime, any place, and anywhere and According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) today there are still more than 800 mobile operators investing in LTE. There are also close to 600 additional LTE networks that have been commercially launched and an…

Making Voice over Wi-Fi really work

Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) is growing as a service that mobile operators offer to customers. That’s because it helps you solve issues with poor coverage and takes some strain off your cellular network, customer support and technical services. But in order to achieve a first-class VoWi-Fi service tha…

Voice over Wi-Fi’s value to service providers and users

Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) is a relatively new technology that’s already had a good reception from mobile network operators. And that’s because it fixes one of the top issues of your customers: poor mobile reception indoors. Here’s a quick overview: https://youtu.be/7AKO96-ZWoU Solving problems at h…

Complementary Technologies: VoWi-Fi and VoLTE

Learn more from Monica Paolini from Senza Fili and RCR Wireless Last week, my children used Facetime to chat with me while I was traveling to hear the latest Cisco developments at CiscoLive in Las Vegas. While they love seeing the things around me via the video, it’s the stories they most want to he…

The Year of VoWi-Fi

There is a new role of voice in today’s communications. While we increasingly use text messages, instant messages, video, chat, and other technologies to communicate, voice continues to be a strong application that we use to reach out to each other. The methods of connecting voice calls have evolved…

February 22, 2016

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Cisco VoWi-Fi Solution for Today’s Voice Demands

The first time I experienced Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi), I was on the receiving end of the call.  One of my colleagues called us with an OTT voice app using the airplane Wi-Fi. Not surprisingly, the sound quality was terrible, but we were able to communicate our message to him after repeating it a f…

September 29, 2015

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ACG Research says “Cisco Packet Core is Accelerating”

Growing Market Share Leadership in Mobility – #1 in Packet Core, EPC, MME, SGW, & PGW for Q2 2015, driven by demand for LTE, Wi-Fi, VoWi-Fi, VoLTE, Policy Suite. Wasn’t that a great lunar event Sunday Night? We had a great view of the full moon, lunar eclipse, blood moon last night that won’t oc…

The world cuts the cable: Wireless Traffic to Exceed Fixed IP Traffic Next Year

One key take out for me from the latest Cisco VNI report is that wireless traffic is about to exceed fixed for the first time. Today wireless (Wi-Fi & Mobile) is 46% of total IP traffic, in 5-years it will be 67%. In fact at the projected rate of traffic migration this significant milestone will…

Increasing Mobile Network Efficiency with Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi)

Have you ever walked into the office or perhaps an area in your home with your mobile phone and tried to make a call, only to have poor LTE/4G/3G signal strength keep your call from connecting? What did you do? Well if you’re like me, you probably wanted to throw your phone and revert back to the re…