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Satellites and Enterprise Focus at MWC23

At this year’s Mobile World Congress show, two major themes emerged as significant to us: satellites, Managed Service Providers and a pivot to Enterprise markets. First, Samsung, Qualcomm, and MediaTek introduced satellite phone capabilities, following last year’s announcements by Apple and Starlink/T-Mobile USA’s entry to the satellite markets. Yes, there… Read More »Satellites and Enterprise Focus at MWC23

MWC 2022 Recap

Hyperscalers, Open RAN, Private 5G and chip announcements were top news at the MWC show in Barcelona last week.  Based on disclosures at the show, Open RAN looks to go commercial in 2023 and 2024, hyperscalers are obtaining contracts to carry an increasing amount of telecom-related workloads, Rakuten Symphony is… Read More »MWC 2022 Recap

The Party-Crashers of MWC21

This week’s MWC Barcelona 2021 had several themes; the most important was that several outsiders to the telecom industry were ever-present.  The new entrants – the party-crashers – included Starlink, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, and NVidia.  These new players are forcing change either through economics, new technology,… Read More »The Party-Crashers of MWC21

TIP OpenWiFi:  Will Open Source Wi-Fi Upset the Enterprise Wi-Fi industry?

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) announced the launch of OpenWiFi Release 1.0, which is a community-developed project that encompasses Access Point hardware, an open-source AP operating system, and an SDK to build cloud-native Wi-Fi Controller software for Service Providers (SPs) and Enterprises.  TIP is also starting lab and field trials. … Read More »TIP OpenWiFi:  Will Open Source Wi-Fi Upset the Enterprise Wi-Fi industry?

Six Groups of Companies That Benefit From FCC’s Vote To Open Up 6 GHz

Today’s big news from the FCC is that it will open up 6 GHz to Wi-Fi and other unlicensed uses.  The FCC authorizes “1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band (5.925–7.125 GHz) available for unlicensed use,” and further explains that it authorizes “standard-power devices in 850 megahertz in the 6… Read More »Six Groups of Companies That Benefit From FCC’s Vote To Open Up 6 GHz

Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6 Event Wrap-up

We attended the Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6 event held in San Francisco today. Representatives from partner companies who attended included HPE Aruba, Cisco, Commscope, Boingo, Netgear, Rivet Networks, AMD, and Microsoft. The principal announcement at the event was that Qualcomm announced its Networking Pro Series Platforms which are focused on Wi-Fi 6 capabilities,… Read More »Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6 Event Wrap-up

Huawei’s Chip Projects Front and Center at Analyst Summit (HAS2019)

Huawei hosted 700 analysts and media participants in Shenzhen China last week to attend its annual analyst summit, nick-named HAS2019.  The company’s high-level message was simple – the company is an innovator and is moving down the stack into semiconductors and is partnering with and funding university projects to develop… Read More »Huawei’s Chip Projects Front and Center at Analyst Summit (HAS2019)

H3C and Qualcomm jointly Announce 802.11ax WLAN product availability for September 2018

H3C and Qualcomm announced the planned availability of the WA6628 802.11ax Wireless LAN Access Point; it is slated for September 2018 shipments.  This new Access Point uses the Qualcomm IPQ8078 part number – we checked the Qualcomm website and we cannot find this part on the website.  So, we assume… Read More »H3C and Qualcomm jointly Announce 802.11ax WLAN product availability for September 2018