Network Infrastructure,Wireless
prnewswire | July 25, 2023
Airties, a leading supplier of managed Wi-Fi solutions for service providers globally, today announced that Telecentro has deployed its portfolio of Smart Wi-Fi software and services to cable and fiber broadband subscribers across Argentina.
Telecentro currently offers one of the nation's fastest internet services, along with TV, entertainment and telephony services to consumers and businesses. Telecentro has also now deployed Airties' Smart Wi-Fi SaaS offering, which includes Airties Edge smart Wi-Fi software for gateways; Airties Cloud, a Wi-Fi management platform and a customized version of Airties' companion app; as well as Wi-Fi 6 mesh extenders.
"At Telecentro, we take immense pride in our track record of being the first to introduce dual-band Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi 6 in the country. Now, following our goal to provide the best experience, we continue investing in next-generation home Wi-Fi," said Juan Luna, CTIO of Telecentro. "After a thorough evaluation, we selected Airties as our strategic supplier because consumers today expect the best possible connectivity right down to the device. Great coverage and seamless Wi-Fi experience is key. Together, we look forward to bringing advanced Wi-Fi capabilities to our customers."
"Telecentro is well-known for their pioneering spirit and being the first operator in South America to introduce gigabit Internet services to consumers," said Guillaume van Gaver, Co-CEO of Airties. "As a market leader focused on continuous innovation, we are proud that Telecentro selected Airties' portfolio of Smart Wi-Fi software and services to bring a new class of home Wi-Fi to Argentinians throughout their vast network."
Airties' unique hybrid cloud-edge architecture leverages both the embedded intelligence in customer premises equipment (CPE) and the cloud to maximize responsiveness and performance. Airties Edge, smart Wi-Fi software for Telecentro's gateways/routers, intelligently directs consumers' devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones, game consoles, IoT, smart home devices, etc.) to the best available Wi-Fi access point and frequency band based on real-time network conditions. The software, based on industry-standard Wi-Fi EasyMesh™, turns existing home gateways/modems into an intelligent Wi-Fi mesh access point, improving the quality and stability of connectivity within the home.
Airties Cloud monitors and orchestrates Wi-Fi across homes, optimizing Telecentro's broadband gateways and mesh extenders in real-time to ensure a better quality of experience for consumers, while providing insights on connected devices. Airties' app is a customizable companion app that allows consumers to visualize and intuitively manage their home connectivity, control who has access to the network via parental and guest controls and provides step-by-step guidance for customers to self-install Wi-Fi mesh extenders.
Airties has also been recognized with many prestigious industry awards for its innovative work serving broadband operators, including: "Best Home Wi-Fi Solution Award" from Broadband World Forum; "Best Wi-Fi Service Provider Solution" and "Best Home Wi-Fi Product" awards from Wi-Fi NOW; "Best-In Home Wi-Fi Network" award from Wireless Broadband Alliance; "Best Broadband Customer Experience" from Cable & Satellite International; and many others.
About Airties
Airties is a leading provider of managed Wi-Fi solutions to operators around the globe. The Smart Wi-Fi portfolio from Airties includes Airties Edge, smart Wi-Fi software for gateways; Airties Cloud, a cloud-based management platform and its companion app, Airties Vision; and Wi-Fi mesh extenders. Operators turn to Airties for the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of their customers' broadband experience. Airties' customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Singtel, Sky, Telia, Telstra, Vodafone, and many others.
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HITInfrastructure | October 16, 2018
Organizations are broadening their healthcare networks to reach out beyond the confines of the facility. In order to do this successfully there needs to be more visibility and control over the network, and many organizations are turning to software-defined networking gain more control. SDN uses virtualization to remove the intelligent management software from network hardware. By doing so, SDN creates a centralized, more intelligent, and easier managed network architecture. The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) describes SDN as the “physical separation of the network control plane from the forwarding plane, and where a control plane controls several devices.” SDN allows network administrators to manage the network through abstraction which gives apps and programs a simplified platform to operate on. ONF breaks down SDN architecture as: Directly programmable: Network control is directly programmable because it is decoupled from forwarding functions. Agile: Abstracting control from forwarding lets administrators dynamically adjust network-wide traffic flow to meet changing needs. Centrally managed: Network intelligence is (logically) centralized in software-based SDN controllers that maintain a global view of the network, which appears to applications and policy engines as a single, logical switch. Programmatically configured: SDN lets network managers configure, manage, secure, and optimize network resources very quickly via dynamic, automated SDN programs, which they can write themselves because the programs do not depend on proprietary software. Open standards-based and vendor-neutral: When implemented through open standards, SDN simplifies network design and operation because instructions are provided by SDN controllers instead of multiple, vendor-specific devices and protocols.
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RCRWireless News | July 13, 2018
The move to Internet Protocol Version 6 addresses has been underway for a number of years, as the world exhausted the supply of IPv4 internet addresses. The momentum in software-defined networking and the internet of things is driving faster adoption of IPv6 — and the need for testing of devices to ensure that they can be successfully deployed in IPv6 environments, according to Tim Winters, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab’s senior executive for software and IP networking. UNH-IOL announced this week that it has expanded its IPv6 testing capabilities to meet requirements in the updated USGv6 profile, which is the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s compliance test program for IPv6. The revised profile is updated for the latest IPv6 standards, according to UNH-IOL, including testing in IPv6-only environments, testing IPv6 applications and services, and “providing a streamlined platform for other organizations and governments to utilize the profile and test methodology.” As Winters puts it, the original USGv6 profile was supposed to ensure that government customers could buy products tested to that profile to ensure that they were buying items that were compliant and would work properly. The updated profile brings in updates from the years since the original profile was introduced and adjusts to the new reality of IoT. Winter said that IPv6 deployments are at about 20% globally and expecting continued growth, driven by the fact that more IoT and more SDN mean more demand for IP addresses. “What we’re seeing now is IoT devices, smaller devices that are getting onto networks and need to support IPv6, while at the same time people are finding ways to make things more efficient and get creative with segment routing,” Winters said. “One of the things we’re trying to do is make sure that the devices work correctly — that you can put it on an IPv6 networks, it will get an address and it won’t do any harm to the network.”
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