Wi-Fi

The Need For Speed: Fast and personalized is the way to go!

As consumers, we gravitate to any retailer that personalizes our experience. Netflix and Amazon did it with recommendations and others are following suit. My twelve-year-old son and I recently got new Garmin smart-watches for Christmas – the Forerunner 620 and 630. We created workout plans, set our…

March 25, 2016

NETWORKING

Robust Wireless Network in the Healthcare Environment

Across the board, digital transformation is revolutionizing multiple industries. Healthcare is among the most prolific of these industries as digital transformation leverages the capabilities of a robust wireless network. Healthcare organizations are delivering innovative patient care, streamlining…

Observations from Mobile World Congress 2016

I have just returned from a very interesting and jammed-packed week at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. For the first time ever, over 100,000 people and 2,200 plus vendors attended this year’s premier technology festival. Much has changed in the industry over the last year since I reported m…

Ericsson Partner to Create Next-Generation Network for 3 Italia

Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ericsson announced plans with business and technology partner Cisco to support 3 Italia’s mobile IP backbone network transformation. The two industry leaders will combine their expertise to deploy and integrate a variety of technologies and services t…

Vodafone Germany Completes Trial of Intelligent Access Selection

As I was walking in the neighborhood this past weekend, I had a very frustrating experience between my Wi-Fi and cellular network. I was listening to my favorite radio station, streaming it via an app on my phone. As I walked further and further away from my home, the radio stream halted due to a we…

February 17, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Wireless Connections & Wi-Fi – Mobile Network Evolution

Every time a new generation of mobile network has been introduced – 2G networks transitioning to 3G, and 3G evolving to 4G, there have been concerns about the user adoption and capacity utilization. And each time skeptics have been proven wrong. By 2020, smartphones will represent 48.1% of global mo…

February 11, 2016

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Cisco Leading the Way in IoT Wireless

We are pleased to announce that the Cisco Industrial Wireless (IW) 3700 Series is the winner of the Control Engineering 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award in the Network Integration – Wireless Products category.  Voting was open to over 140,000 industrial engineers responsible for automation, control, and…

January 12, 2016

SMALL BUSINESS

Small Business Update

Hello all, Welcome to 2016. I wanted to provide a quick update as we start the new year. First off, if you did not know, we have a fantastic Small Business support community. There are sections for Routing, Switching, and of course Wireless. In each section you will find a repository of videos on de…

December 22, 2015

NETWORKING

Mobility Express Deployment Explained

The great thing about Mobility Express is that it allows you to easily deploy a robust, feature-packed wireless network.  The deployment is based for small to medium-sized businesses, so the chances are good that IT support may be lacking from these organizations. And the idea of setting up and runn…