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Hear from Metin Taskin, CEO & CTO, Airties to learn how standards-based solutions ensure interoperability, reduce vendor lock-in, and facilitate innovation.
Airties advocating for standards that help improve home Wi-Fi
Airties has always been an advocate for standards that help improve home Wi-Fi. EasyMesh, in particular, is a Wi-Fi Alliance® program which brings a standards-based approach to Wi-Fi networks that utilize multiple access points (APs). Specifically, EasyMesh Release 2 provides a standardized communication layer for home networks that utilizes multiple Wi-Fi extenders.
Adopting EasyMesh allows Airties, and our customers, to focus more on adding value with business logic and less on platform integration—as certain core functionalities are now able to work consistently across chipsets and OEMs. It enables us to focus more efforts on the advanced Smart Wi-Fi and cloud management capabilities that really make a difference to our customers, such as advanced steering, channel optimization, zero-touch installation, and remote Wi-Fi troubleshooting.
Airties’ software enabled the world’s first service provider deployment of Wi-Fi EasyMesh with Telstra in Australia. Since that time, we now have multiple EasyMesh-based service provider deployments underway that we expect will be announced later this year.
While each deployment is unique, more service providers are seeking the kind of interoperability that EasyMesh provides, coupled with Airties’ hybrid cloud-edge software architecture to maximize the responsiveness, performance, and control of their subscribers’ home Wi-Fi experience.
At Airties, EasyMesh is the foundation for delivering leading Smart Wi-Fi functionality, granting broadband operators flexibility to deploy Airties Edge (our Smart Wi-Fi software for gateways/routers/extenders) on a massive number of products.
In addition, Airties Cloud provides broadband operators with the ability to manage both legacy and EasyMesh extenders in a unified way, since only the most recent extenders are available with EasyMesh.
The benefits for operators to adopt this EasyMesh approach versus alternatives
- EasyMesh both simplifies and speeds up the integration of advanced business logic onto Wi-Fi hardware platforms, by reducing the bespoke integration efforts typically needed across OEMs, chipsets, and software. It does this by standardizing the basic building blocks of a managed Wi-Fi mesh solution for operators.
- EasyMesh is supported by all major Wi-Fi chipset vendors and OEMs for their mainstream and future generation products. This also means operators can support multi-vendor deployments more seamlessly.
- EasyMesh is fully compatible with the Airties hybrid cloud-edge architecture that leverages Smart Wi-Fi capabilities embedded on the CPE as well as the analytics and optimizations operated through the Cloud.
- EasyMesh allows operators to work with partners like Airties to focus more of their efforts on the advanced Smart Wi-Fi and connected home services that really make a difference to consumers – things like zero-touch installation; remote home Wi-Fi management; and new services.
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YouSee deploys Airties’ Smart Wi-Fi, including Airties Edge, Airties Cloud, Wi-Fi Boosters, and Vision App to support its customers throughout Denmark
PARIS, France – February 14, 2023 – Airties, a leading supplier of managed Wi-Fi solutions for service providers globally, today announced that it is providing YouSee with a portfolio of Smart Wi-Fi software and services to support its broadband subscribers across Denmark.
YouSee, a Nuuday company, is one of Denmark’s largest telecommunications companies, offering a wide range of services including Internet, TV, and mobile voice. YouSee have 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’ Vision app. Developed by Airties, youSee Wi-Fi Boosters help deliver intelligent wireless connectivity to every corner of the home.
Airties helps ensure we deliver a premium Wi-Fi service, with ultra-fast speeds and complete in-home coverage for all.
Jesper Korsskov, Senior Vice President of Connectivity, youSee at Nuuday
“As Denmark’s largest broadband provider, youSee’s priority is to bring the best possible connectivity and user experience for all our customers – whether on cable, DSL or fiber,” said Jesper Korsskov, Senior Vice President of Connectivity, youSee at Nuuday. “Airties helps ensure we deliver a premium Wi-Fi service, with ultra-fast speeds and complete in-home coverage for all.”
YouSee is committed to delivering an exceptional experience, and we look forward to supporting their efforts to deliver consistent, high-quality, and secure connectivity throughout their customers’ homes.
Metin Taskin, CEO and CTO of Airties
“We are proud to have been selected by youSee to deliver their Smart Wi-Fi service to their customers across Denmark,” said Metin Taskin, CEO and CTO of Airties. “YouSee is committed to delivering an exceptional experience, and we look forward to supporting their efforts to deliver consistent, high-quality, and secure connectivity throughout their customers’ homes.”
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 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. Airties Cloud orchestrates Wi-Fi across homes, optimizing operator gateways and extenders to ensure a better quality of experience for consumers, while providing insights on in-home conditions and connected devices. Airties Vision is a customizable companion app that provides an intuitive tool to allow consumers to easily manage their home connectivity, secure their network and devices, enable parental/guest controls, and more.
Airties is a global leader in carrier-grade Wi-Fi solutions, integrating the latest industry standards and open-source software in demand by today’s global broadband providers. As such, Airties has been recognized with numerous industry awards 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.
Additional information about Airties can be found at: www.airties.com. Additional information about YouSee is available at: https://yousee.dk/.
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. More information is available at www.airties.com.
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Press release | November 19, 2024
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Hear from Metin Taskin, CEO & CTO of Airties, what are the key Wi-Fi trends to watch this year and what they mean to broadband operators.
According to Metin, service providers are moving away from proprietary Smart Wi-Fi solutions and choosing to deploy standards-based, open source Wi-Fi solutions instead. The first trend he sees this year is the increasing adoption of Wi-Fi EasyMesh™ standard. Metin also believes that Wi-Fi 7 will contribute to more adoption of the 6GHz frequency. Currently being offered through Wi-Fi 6E, the 6GHz band paves the way for interference-free, uninterrupted connectivity.
End-to-end Wi-Fi QoS management will play a crucial role in enabling seamless quality of experience for end users. Additionally, Wi-Fi management has become more critical for service providers and provides a significant return on investment to differentiate themselves in the market, whether they are in the cable, fiber, or fixed wireless access business.
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Introduction
Home Wi-Fi has become synonymous with the broadband service, which means subscribers today perceive a poor Wi-Fi service to be a poor broadband service. It is essential, therefore, that operators invest in this part of the network if they are to remain competitive. But how can they enhance an already sophisticated network to gain the maximum RoI from this investment? The answer is interoperability.
Managing complex networks in connected homes
As a broadband operator, you probably know only too well how complex network architecture with multi-vendor devices and chips can slow down the rollout of new services. Each deployment is unique; however, complexity is often the culprit in delays or cost overruns when you’d really like to focus on delivering an excellent experience in the home.
Airties was one of the first companies in the home network space to develop and deploy mesh solutions. At that time, there was no standard to rely on when establishing a Mesh network and how to manage that network in a connected home. At Airties, we’ve always been a strong advocate for fundamental levels of standardization, and have worked actively with the Wi-Fi Alliance to make it happen. The second release of Wi-Fi EasyMesh provides a standardized communication layer for home networks that use multiple Wi-Fi extenders. We put all our efforts into integrating Wi-Fi EasyMesh into our Smart Wi-Fi System and interface with various chips, gateways, and extenders using the Wi-Fi EasyMesh protocol. It allows us to focus our efforts on the advanced Wi-Fi and cloud management capabilities that really make a difference to broadband operators, who, in turn, can benefit from this foundation that enables faster time to market and helps reduce bespoke integration efforts typically needed across OEMs, chipsets, and software.
Excellent customer experience is about interoperability and smart enhancements.
In our interactions with operators around the globe, we often get the impression that there is some confusion in the market regarding the role of Wi-Fi EasyMesh.
Wi-Fi EasyMesh defines the low-level communication protocol between multi-vendor gateways and extenders. It reduces complexity by providing a standard exchange mechanism between devices. However, it doesn’t determine the rules around any of the more advanced features: diagnostics, performance enhancements, backhaul optimization, client steering, or how to determine the best channel for a particular home. Flawless user experience will, therefore, still require compatible Smart Wi-Fi enhancements in order to achieve the 100% smooth, fast, reliable experience customers want, especially for critical applications.
Legacy and new devices will continue to coexist for many years to come – for the moment, only recent (mainly Wi-Fi 6) extenders are available with Wi-Fi EasyMesh, which is also why our Smart Wi-Fi solutions support this complexity in a unified way.
Value-added Wi-Fi EasyMesh enhancements for gateways
Airties’ software enabled the world’s first service provider deployment of Wi-Fi EasyMesh with Telstra in Australia. Since that time, the company has created versatile new solutions that combines the benefits of standards-based Wi-Fi EasyMesh architecture, with the added functionality and control provided by Airties Edge software and Airties Cloud.
Airties’ Wi-Fi EasyMesh controller functionality is included in Airties Edge software which is compatible across chipsets and gateway manufacturers, making it faster and easier for service providers to deploy operator-grade Wi-Fi EasyMesh into the field. For third-party gateways, Airties hybrid cloud-edge solution of Airties Edge and Airties Cloud can be deployed as a single firmware upgrade to legacy devices in the field.
Watch this video from Telstra featuring their new Smart Modem 3, powered by standards-based Wi-Fi EasyMesh software and Cloud Management Platform from Airties.
Key benefits of Airties software solution include:
- Enhanced band/client steering and roaming to improve performance;
- Advanced Wi-Fi channel management and backhaul optimization;
- Easy on-boarding of extenders with zero-touch activation;
- Pre-integration with Airties’ secure, GDPR-compliant management platform to optimize subscribers’ home Wi-Fi networks, and provide remote diagnostics, troubleshooting, and proactive recommendations to improve performance; and
- Pre-integration with Airties Vision App that helps guide consumers through extender set up and placement, parental controls, enhanced security, and more
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Press release | November 19, 2024
Video | October 15, 2024
Metin Taskin speaks with Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor at Light Reading
Consumer demand for seamless, latency-free experience and the number and variety of their connected devices has significantly impacted service providers’ end-to-end delivery models. “[Consumers] need a good broadband experience. They really wouldn’t know if it is the Wi-Fi or the fiber or DSL or fixed wireless. It is critical to manage this network [… ] to provide the optimum experience for end users,” says Metin Taskin, CEO & CTO at Airties in his conversation with Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor at Light Reading.
Source: www.lightreading.com
Speaking at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, Metin shared how in-home Wi-Fi connectivity solutions have evolved over the last two decades. Firstly, operators are increasingly seeking solutions that are standards-based and open source to ensure more innovation without the hassle of vendor lock-in and interoperability issues. He also explains how operators manage users’ Wi-Fi experience is also changing. People expect their connection to be perfect down to the device and even optimized for the specific application they are using. “When the user calls [customer care], they call saying ‘my YouTube doesn’t work’ or ‘my Netflix is freezing all the time’. So the management or optimization is going more granular, all the way down to the application for Quality of Experience management,” shares Metin.
Demonstrating operators’ priorities towards industry standards, Metin mentions how telco giants such as Telstra in Australia and Deutsche Telekom in Germany have successfully deployed solutions based on the Wi-Fi Alliance’s EasyMesh. Airties has been actively involved in the evolution of EasyMesh to truly become an operator-grade solution, both within the RDK community (through contribution of its Wi-Fi EasyMesh Controller software module as a new RDK-B component), as well as for other operators who want an optimized framework for their gateway software stack.
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Standards-based approach to residential Wi-Fi networks
We are happy to announce that our mesh access point Air 4960 is now Wi-Fi CERTIFIED EasyMesh™ (R2). The certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance brings a standards-based approach to residential and small office Wi-Fi networks that utilize multiple access points. Wi-Fi EasyMesh products are known to deliver full coverage networks with intelligent management of resources, with minimal user intervention.
This certification endorses the Airties mesh access point Air 4960’s capabilities to deliver smart home Wi-Fi with easier on-boarding, discovery and configuration and more adaptive channel and network management, link optimization and smarter metrics reporting. Our device successfully cleared almost 200 different test cases for it to be certified.
The growth in variety and number of connected devices that rely on Wi-Fi connectivity in the home has resulted in the need for intelligent and dynamic Wi-Fi networks. Airties teams across the world have contributed to the Air 4960 successfully achieving the certification and create a product that benefits service providers and their consumers with a great Wi-Fi quality of experience that caters to evolving demands.
The benefits for operators to adopt this EasyMesh approach versus alternatives
- EasyMesh both simplifies and speeds up the integration of advanced business logic onto Wi-Fi hardware platforms, by reducing the bespoke integration efforts typically needed across OEMs, chipsets, and software. It does this by standardizing the basic building blocks of a managed Wi-Fi mesh solution for operators
- EasyMesh is supported by all major Wi-Fi chipset vendors and OEMs for their mainstream and future generation products. This also means operators can support multi-vendor deployments more seamlessly.
- EasyMesh is fully compatible with the Airties hybrid cloud-edge architecture that leverages Smart Wi-Fi capabilities embedded on the CPE as well as the analytics and optimizations operated through the Cloud.
- EasyMesh allows operators to work with partners like Airties to focus more of their efforts on the advanced Smart Wi-Fi and connected home services that really make a difference to consumers – things like zero-touch installation; remote home Wi-Fi management; and new services.
About Air 4960
The Air 4960 is the flagship Wi-Fi 6 access point for broadband operators, providing ultra-reliable, unprecedented high speed for the demanding requirements of today’s bandwidth-hungry applications. Built to support the latest connected devices, the Air 4960 comes with 802.11ax technology for the most latency-sensitive applications, such as 4K video streaming or online gaming.
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Introduction
Airties’ software enabled the world’s first service provider deployment of Wi-Fi EasyMesh with Telstra in Australia. Since that time, the company has created versatile new solutions that combine the benefits of standards-based Wi-Fi EasyMesh architecture, with the added functionality and control provided by Airties Edge software and Airties Cloud. Watch the video below to see what are the 3 lessons learned from our deployments:
1. Wi-Fi standards reduce complexity and future-proof your network
EasyMesh allows operators a shorter time to market, less bespoke integrations, faster deployments; flexibility on the choice of gateways or extenders.
2. Standards cannot do it all
Flawless user experience will still require Smart Wi-Fi enhancements to achieve 100% reliability consumers want, especially for critical applications: real-time diagnostics, advanced steering and channel optimization, remote home Wi-Fi management, monitoring of user experience (QoE).
3. The mix of legacy and new devices will remain for the years to come
This is why our solutions support both legacy devices and Wi-Fi EasyMesh in a unified way.
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Fierce Innovation Awards – Telecom Edition 2022
We are proud to announce that Airties Cloud has been shortlisted in the Cloud Services category by the Fierce Innovation Awards!
The Fierce Innovation Awards seek to recognize the creators, makers, and doers of outstanding services and equipment unveiled in the past 12 months. Intended to promote the competitive spirit and initiative to spark new design, development and distribution of inventive solutions; find revolutionary tech or services; and to acknowledge and honor the most visionary operators, service providers, and vendors for their commitment to next-gen business and consumer offerings.
Airties Cloud Platform
Actively managing more than 35M homes around the world, Airties Cloud platform is a complete operator solution for Connected Homes. Airties Cloud measures and manages the performance of your customers’ broadband experience.
Airties Cloud orchestrates Wi-Fi across millions of homes, optimizing operator gateways and extenders in real time to ensure a better quality of experience for consumers. Airties Cloud provides insights on the millions of users and their connected devices. It also allows operators to address the evolving needs of consumers, such as cyber security, through a suite of digital services.
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Press release | November 19, 2024