Gigabit broadband speeds have become the norm. Once seen as a competitive differentiator, broadband services with speeds of 1Gbps or even higher are now offered by a majority of service providers across the world. According to a survey¹ earlier this year by Omdia, 60% of service providers surveyed offered 1Gbps+ speeds, compared to 45% in 2019.
What is driving this surge? The consumer appetite for high-quality bandwidth is increasing as they indulge in hi-speed, low-latency applications and push towards creating connected homes of the future. Since the last two years, working from home, remote learning, video streaming, smart home devices have become common in an average household and the extensive use cloud gaming, AR/VR applications have pushed up monthly data usage beyond half a TB².
However, for telcos and service providers, simply providing high speeds is not enough. It is ultimately the Quality of Experience that helps a provider emerge as a market leader. Omdia clearly establishes the relationship between home QoE and broadband as they believe consumers associate in-home bottlenecks and issues with service providers’ networks and will churn for a better experience. Innovation with home solutions such as smart Wi-Fi is key to guarantee a reliable and satisfactory experience.
At Airties we strive to do just that. We see home Wi-Fi as not just an enabler of basic connectivity and entertainment but as a facilitator of the ‘Digital Lifestyle’. Home Wi-Fi today supports diverse applications, smart home and mobile devices and enables new use cases such as smart healthcare, motion detection and much more. With the Airties Smart Wi-Fi Platform, telcos and broadband service providers can ensure that their high-speed offering translates into a wonderful experience within the home too. Here is a snapshot of our Smart Wi-Fi Platform in action and its extensive capacity to steer the best quality of experience for each home and drive actionable business insights for telcos and service providers to help create a business model that is truly future-proof.
Airties platform in action
Our cloud-based platform not only manages the day-to-day experiences for subscribers but also proactively provides actionable insights for telcos and service providers to make better business decisions. Additionally, our cloud platform also supports the customer care function by providing clear visibility into individual homeowners Wi-Fi performance.
¹ https://omdia.tech.informa.com/OM024143/How-gigabit-became-the-broadband-standard
² https://www.lightreading.com/cable-tech/average-data-consumption-eclipses-half-terabyte-per-month—openvault/d/d-id/775689
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Gert Maes, Josselin Wildemeersch from Proximus, and Jos Delbar from Airties discuss the importance of Wi-Fi EasyMesh with Claus Hetting from Wi-Fi NOW at the Wi-Fi World Congress 2022.
Home Wi-Fi has become synonymous with the broadband service, meaning a poor Wi-Fi service equals a poor broadband service in the eyes of the customer. It is essential, therefore, that broadband service providers invest in this part of the network if they are to remain competitive. Rather than just throwing more hardware at the issue, however, a far more efficient way to invest in the home network is to deploy a single, cloud-based software management layer across the network footprint that can dynamically optimize the performance of the home broadband gateway, and identify those customers who would also then benefit from new or additional Wi-Fi hardware.
However, deploying a new proprietary management software platform over the top of such an ecosystem can therefore be complex, time consuming, and expensive, as it can require additional integration work for each different type or brand of hardware deployed. Although it wouldn’t necessarily help with older CPE, moving toward a more open, standards-based environment would in the long term bring significant advantages to service providers, as any new software could then be efficiently and quickly deployed across all hardware in the field. Standardization can help by simplifying the interoperability effort, enabling quick time to market. One standard that is gaining fast market traction is the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi EasyMesh™ (EasyMesh), and Airties has been one of the pioneers in adopting this standard.
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2022 Network X Awards:
We are absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for the Network X Award for Most Innovative Cloud Solution.
Airties Cloud Platform
Actively managing more than 33M 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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We are pleased to announce that Metin Taskin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Airties, has been shortlisted for the WBA Industry Awards as CTO of the Year.
Metin Taskin began his career working as a research engineer at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). From there, his career continued in the United States: first at Hittite Microwave Corporation in Boston, MA, designing radar and microwave communications systems, and later at Cisco Systems in San José, CA. Working initially on the development of fixed access wireless devices at the Wireless Access Business Unit, Metin later moved to the Wireless Networking Business Unit of Cisco as a system architect and led a team of 25 engineers that developed BR1410, an IEEE 802.11a compliant Wireless Outdoor Bridge. Metin proudly received the “Cisco Innovator” award for his success in the design and development of this product.
In 2004, Metin co-founded Airties as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and has been at the forefront of the Wi-Fi revolution for nearly twenty years. Early on, Metin had a clear vision for the Internet of the future and centrality of Wi-Fi within it. He foresaw that Wi-Fi Mesh had significant application and benefits for home environments. He helped pioneer the technology and drive market awareness of the need for Managed home Wi-Fi, leading to its massive adoption by broadband operators around the globe.
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We are delighted to announce that Airties’ Wi-Fi EasyMesh Controller Software RDK-B Integration has been honored by 2022 Diamond Technology Reviews in the “Wi-Fi Solutions” category.
RDK is an open source software platform, deployed on more than 80 million devices worldwide, that standardizes core functions and telemetry used in broadband, video, and IoT connected devices. For broadband devices specifically, RDK-B provides a common platform across broadband access technologies including DOCSIS, GPON, and DSL, with functionality such as routing, Wi-Fi, diagnostics, IoT support, and more.
By further integrating Wi-Fi EasyMesh, developed through Wi-Fi Alliance®, as a standardized communication layer for Wi-Fi gateways and extenders, operators can spend less time on platform integration efforts across OEMs and chipsets, and more time developing value-added managed Wi-Fi services to their subscribers. Airties’ RDK-B component contribution will enable this kind of operator-grade experience. Vendors and operators across the RDK community are now free to deploy their own products using this contributed Wi-Fi EasyMesh controller. Airties will also maintain the component code contribution and future revisions to support the RDK community.
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2022 CSI Awards:
We are delighted to share that CSI Magazine has shortlisted Telstra Smart Wi-Fi powered by Airties Cloud in the Best customer premise technology category for their prestigious 2022 CSI Awards!
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