Gartner's Top 10 Mobile Technologies for 2016#6 of Gartner's Top 10 Mobile Technologies for 2016 is "New Wifi Standards"
"Wi-Fi standards such as 802.11ac (Waves 1 and 2), 11ad, 11aq and 11ah increase Wi-Fi performance, “make Wi-Fi more relevant to applications such as telemetry, and enable Wi-Fi to provide new services. Over the next three years, demands on Wi-Fi infrastructure will increase as more Wi-Fi-enabled devices appear in organizations, as cellular offloading becomes more popular, and as applications such as location sensing demand denser access-point placement. The opportunities enabled by new standards and the performance required by new applications will require many organizations to revise or replace their Wi-Fi infrastructure,” Jines said."
Seems like Edgewater is well placed to take advantage of this from a raw throughput standpoint but the part that I bolded above raises an important question regarding the WiFi3tm access points: are the location sensing functions hindered by the reduction in actual numbers of APs? Many network operators will be looking to monetize their networks by reselling mobile device location data as well as delivering location-based ads. If Edgewater's APs perform worse in that regard than competing products they may find it difficult to gain traction with some customers.
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