The University of Michigan is the first university in the U.S to deploy Wi-Fi 6E, deploying the world’s largest Wi-Fi 6E network with more than 16,000 access points across 225 buildings and outdoor areas.

Wi-Fi NOW hosts global events in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. 

In this episode, we talk with Claus Hetting, CEO and Chairman of Wi-Fi NOW, about key learnings from its Wi-Fi NOW event in Cancun and some news highlights that came out of the conference.

In this episode, we talk with James Chen, Associate Vice President of Product Marketing at MediaTek, about the explosive growth of Wi-Fi during the pandemic, the role of Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi 6 in IoT, and present and future opportunities Wi-Fi enables for the smart home.

In this episode, we talk to Rad Sethuraman, VP of Product Management at Cambium Networks, about the business of Wi-Fi deployments in multi-dwelling units such as assisted living facilities, apartment buildings, and campus dorms.

In this episode, we talk to Harry Dewhirst, CEO of Linksys, about the various ways Wi-Fi is driving the future of secure, remote work. Approximately 35 million people in North America will be working from home by 2025.

In this episode, we talk about the benefits of multi-user MIMO for Wi-Fi 6 with Rolf de Vegt, VP of Technical Standards at Qualcomm. Multi-user MIMO allows access points with many antennae to serve multiple users at the same time, and traffic can be sent to up to eight clients simultaneously in the same spectrum to deliver customers much more throughput.

In this episode, we talk to John Brams, VP of Major Accounts at Extreme Networks, about the benefits of Wi-Fi in dense public areas.

In this episode, we talk to Chris Szymanski, Director of Product Marketing and Technology Strategy at Broadcom, about the various ways the Wi-Fi industry is working to gain global market access to 6 GHz. This episode covers AFC databases in 6 GHz, rules for operating here, and reviews the various ways this will boost Wi-Fi performance at standard power. 

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In this episode, we talk with Derek Peterson, CTO at Boingo, about Wi-Fi’s evolving role alongside Next Gen or 5G Cellular deployments. Derek emphasizes the recognition that digital transformation is accelerating at a rapid pace. This transformation depends on realizing that companies have multiple tools available to use.

In this episode, we talk with Irvind Ghai, VP of Marketing for onsemi, about the new opportunities and trends driving Wi-Fi deployments. From onsemi's perspective, service providers and the connected home are showing a lot of strength because of the shift in the way we're all working and playing today, and home networks need to be more resilient than ever.