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What WiFi hotspot growth means for your business
The world is quietly experiencing a “hotspot revolution.” Since 2015, the world’s total count of public WiFi hotspots has grown exponentially. A Cisco research found 64.2 million public hotspots operating at the end of 2015. And this growth is accelerating—by the end of 2022, Cisco projects 432.5 million global public hotspots.
Simply put, it’s impossible to ignore the incredible rate of WiFi hotspot growth and the public’s dramatically escalating standards for convenient access. Here are four potential takeaways for your business.
How disaggregation allows you to reduce your CAPEX and OPEX
The disaggregation concept embraces the open-source approach where WiFi solution providers can decouple their hardware choice from their software choice. This decoupling trend has already been successful in other industries such as the computer and smartphone markets....
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Juniper Networks acquires Mist Systems for $405 million
Juniper Networks has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mist Systems, a wireless LAN vendor pioneering AI-driven WLAN, for $405 million.
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Over 485,000 Ubiquiti devices exposed to DDoS attack
Ubiquiti Networks is currently working on a fix for a recently discovered security issue affecting its devices. This vulnerability affects over 485,000 devices around the world.
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Wi-Fi Alliance announces Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6
Wi-Fi Alliance announced WIFi Certified 6 as part of their WiFi certification program. This latest industry certification program is based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard and will be coming online in Q3 2019.
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Open Mesh acquired by Datto: what’s next for Open Mesh customers?
Open Mesh Inc., one of the most popular makers of wireless networking devices in the SMB segment, has been acquired by Datto, a data protection vendor that sells its products exclusively through managed service providers. With this acquisition, Datto wants to broaden its offering in the networking sector with the launch of a new line of SMB-focused networking solutions.
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TanazaOS, the new cloud-based operating system for WiFi access points – Coming soon
Tanaza will soon launch a new product: TanazaOS, a Linux-based operating system for centralized wireless network management. TanazaOS is an operating system that fully disaggregates hardware and software as it runs on different access points models and open-hardware...
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Why public entities are becoming more supportive of the Open Source approach
Nowadays, public bodies such as international, federal and state entities are becoming more and more supportive of the open source movement and in general of “open” approaches. In many countries, such as the US, the UK and France, governments have recommended adopting...
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Update 2019: The list of supported OpenWRT Wireless Access Points Vendors
The exponential growth in demand for wireless internet connectivity has led to the need, for companies in most business environments, to upgrade their Wi-Fi networking infrastructure. Many companies within the networking industry aim at establishing lock-in barriers...
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WiFi 6: the next generation of WiFi
The next standard for wireless LANs, IEEE 802.11ax, has been conceived to transmit data faster, to better allocate bandwidth among several devices connected to a WiFi network and to more reliably deliver high-bandwidth applications (such as video streaming) than its predecessor, 802.11ac, also known as WiFi 5.
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Meet Hiro: the new Logo for Tanaza
Tanaza has created a symbol. An original trademark that impersonates our shared values. An iconic symbol for our community of Wi-Fi professionals who embrace open networking. We’re proud to introduce HIRO: the new symbol for our community of Wi-Fi professionals.
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The five most used access points by Tanaza’s customers in 2018
Tanaza multi-vendor’s approach allows WiFi professionals to choose the hardware they want to work with when designing their WiFi network infrastructures. Tanaza supports many brands from consumer-grade access points to enterprise-grade wireless devices, facilitating...
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CES 2019: four interesting innovations in the wireless devices industry
CES is one of the biggest meetings for businesses of consumer technologies to present their new products and speak about the main innovations. During four days, more than 4K companies including manufacturers, developers, and suppliers of consumer technology hardware...
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The 10 most read articles about WiFi in 2018
2018 is over, and we at Tanaza already started 2019 with great motivation and enthusiasm!
The year just passed has been a year of growth for Tanaza’s blog, as more and more people read our articles and interact with us every day.
In this post, you will find the list of the ten articles our readers appreciated the most in 2018.
Tanaza firmware now available for MikroTik hAP AC Lite TC
Tanaza now supports the MikroTik hAP AC Lite TC. This device is a Dual-concurrent Access Point: this means that it provides WiFi coverage for 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies at the same time.
By empowering MikroTik hAP AC Lite TC with Tanaza’s firmware, you will get a full set of professional features to manage your WiFi networks and your social hotspots.
