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Huawei says 5G goes commercial in 2020
Today, we attended a presentation made by Huawei to discuss 5G. The company emphasized several interesting points: 2020 is the year for commercial launch of 5G. The company confirmed its understanding that Chinese operators will commercialize 5G in 2020. It explained that in Korea, while there are trials planned in… Read More »Blog
Aerohive price aggression accelerating
Yesterday, Aerohive announced an expansion to its Connect Strategy that results in price cuts across its entire product line by virtue of its extension of its Connect cloud-services offering to all products. Given that Connect is a free version of cloud-managed services, it would accurate to say Aerohive is now… Read More »Blog
Us FCC finally looks to fix the broken e-rate program
Since 2014, the E-Rate program has slowed down spending in the once-largest vertical market for WLAN gear – the K-12 education market. Since the information about bidding and spending patterns for E-Rate is public, it is has been clear that the funding process – which adds almost a year more… Read More »Blog
alcatel-lucent enterprise wlan strategy is paying off
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) presented its quarterly results to analysts today. We have been eagerly waiting to check in to see how the company’s new in-house developed enterprise-class WLAN access points had performed in 1Q17. What we learned was interesting – the company’s WLAN revenues grew almost 10% Y/Y, driven by… Read More »Blog
Riverbed acquires xirrus
SD-WAN vendor Riverbed announced plans to acquire Wireless LAN vendor Xirrus today. Riverbed emphasizes its product line and portfolio strategy in the Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market. Xirrus has emphasized its product portfolio as being a cloud-enabled Wireless LAN (WLAN) market vendor. Two main themes come to mind… Read More »Blog